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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.

Exhaust from a school bus tail pipe on a neighborhood street

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How to Electrify the Nation’s School Buses

By Kea Wilson | Feb 9, 2021 | No Comments

It will take forever to electrify our transit systems, but yellow school buses could be switched over within the decade, a new report says.

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New Trump Executive Order Will Pollute Black Communities

By Kea Wilson | Jun 8, 2020 | No Comments

By dismantling key environmental protections, Trump is empowering cities to build highways through black neighborhoods — a heinous form of environmental racism that has killed countless Americans.

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U.S. Representatives: Here’s Why We Formed the Future of Transportation Caucus

By Eve Kessler | Nov 14, 2019 | No Comments

As roads crumble, our public transit systems fail and carbon emissions rise, members of the new Future of Transportation Caucus lay out their vision.

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Meet the New Congressional Caucus for Transportation

By Aaron Short | Oct 17, 2019 | No Comments

A small group, for now, but eager to debate ways to better fund transit.

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Less Driving And More Electrics Will Reduce Emissions

By Aaron Short | Oct 14, 2019 | No Comments

People need to live and work radically differently if the United States can even hope to get halfway towards becoming carbon neutral by 2050, but a new paper released last month says the most important change would come in how we get around.

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