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Mass Transit Projects Provide Transportation Equity and Workforce Development

admin on February 25, 2008 - 12:22pm

The Fight Against Global Warming: Another Way States Can Rein in Greenhouse Gas Emissions

John Bacino on October 29, 2007 - 11:05am

The Fight Against Global Warming: Another Way States Can Rein in Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Auto Emissions Standards, SCHIP Continued, and Wal-Mart's Tax Evasion

John Bacino on October 25, 2007 - 10:49am

Auto Emissions Standards, SCHIP Continued, and Wal-Mart's Tax Evasion

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

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How Exploited "Independent Contractor" Truckers Drive Pollution in Our Ports

John Bacino on October 11, 2007 - 9:27am

How Exploited "Independent Contractor" Truckers Drive Pollution in Our Ports

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

States Sprint Past the Feds on Renewable Energy

J. Mijin Cha on April 27, 2007 - 8:18am
By the time Congress gets around to trying to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the states will have already acted to eliminate 108 million metric tons of carbon dioxide a year and produce over 46,000 megawatts of renewable power by 2020. As the Christian Science Monitor points out, states are taking the lead in cutting carbon emissions. Already states have eliminated an estimated 20 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions through renewable energy portfolio standards (RPS).

Greening Urban Areas: City Mayors Make Bold Moves Towards Going Green

J. Mijin Cha on April 26, 2007 - 8:37am
On Earth Day, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg revealed his plan to create the "first environmentally sustainable 21st-century city," and integrate an estimated population growth of 1 million people by 2030. PlaNYC is comprised of 127 proposals for environmental improvements in six areas: land, water, air quality, transportation, energy, and climate change. The proposals range from reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 30% to improving transit connections to planting 1 million new trees. 

Affordable Housing as Smart Growth

PSN on February 12, 2007 - 10:51am

When you hear the term "smart growth" what comes to mind?  Anti-sprawl?  Open-space preservation?  Often overlooked in discussions of smart growth policies is the need for affordable housing as a key component of growth planning.

CA: Prop 90 Poses Major Threat to State

Matt Singer on November 1, 2006 - 12:06pm
New polling shows that even as California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger makes explicit his opposition to Proposition 90 -- the state's clone of Measure 37 -- new polling shows the proposition passing by a margin of 58% to 28%. In a California election year where hundreds of millions of dollars are being dumped into races, Prop 90 has flown mostly under the radar.

D.C. Faces Obstacle in Pursuing Smart Growth: The Feds

J. Mijin Cha on October 31, 2006 - 9:11am
Washington D.C.'s struggle to combat urban sprawl goes beyond fighting greedy developors or desires for big houses. The U.S. federal government is proving to be the most stubborn foe to smart growth planners by insisting on scattering employees to the outer edges of the region. Claiming a need for security and space, the federal government has undermined local efforts to concentrate growth near public transit and urban cores.

Smart Growth and Affordable Housing

PSN on April 20, 2006 - 12:26pm

There's a piece of rhetoric out there that smart growth policies increase housing costs, therefore driving working families out of urban areas to the exurban fringe. Daniel Goldberg of Smart Growth America responds with this post emphasizing that the real problem is that the principles of smart growth -- ensuring that "development makes efficient use of land and the roads, sewers, schools and other infrastructure we all pay for" -- have still only had minimal impact on suburban sprawl.