Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about emissions

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Commentary: I-270 Expansion Will Harm Latino Communities, Increase Air Pollution, and Accelerate Climate Change

By Allen Cowgill | Feb 23, 2021 | No Comments

Allen Cowgill: Expanding I-270 will increase pollution in neighborhoods inhabited mostly by people of color and could accelerate climate change by encouraging more people to drive.

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Drivers Are Still Top Polluters, Even During Quarantine

By Kea Wilson | Jan 14, 2021 | No Comments

Not even months of quarantine orders that confined millions of Americans to their homes were enough to unseat passenger vehicle trips as the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, a new study finds.

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Four Ways Cars Pollute Our Lives — Besides the Tailpipe

By Kea Wilson | Dec 14, 2020 | No Comments

Even if we electrified our entire vehicle fleet overnight, car pollution would still make us and the planet sick — and policymakers should start pushing for strong policy to mitigate the impacts of non-tailpipe emissions now, a new study finds.

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Five Reasons Why Trump’s Fuel Standards Rollback is Terrible

By Kea Wilson | Apr 1, 2020 | No Comments

Here's the only story you need on why the Trump administration is wrong to gut an Obama-era rule to make cars cleaner and more efficient.

Photo Hummer parked over the lines in parking space labeled for compact vehicles

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EV Hummer Bummer, Part II: Bad News For Emissions

By Kea Wilson | Feb 5, 2020 | No Comments

This is the second part of Streetsblog's ongoing series about GMC's new Hummer EV — which is a disaster no matter that it's powered by electrons instead of gasoline.

Photo sign with text resident parking only violators will be towed!

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Apartments With Free Parking Reduce Transit Ridership

By Kea Wilson | Jan 29, 2020 | No Comments

But if you think that means increasing transit ridership in American cities will be as simple as taking away everyone's "free" residential parking to make driving less convenient, don't get too excited.

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