Environmental Justice
Commentary: I-270 Expansion Will Harm Latino Communities, Increase Air Pollution, and Accelerate Climate Change
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.
February 23, 2021
How to Electrify the Nation’s School Buses
It will take forever to electrify our transit systems, but yellow school buses could be switched over within the decade, a new report says.
February 9, 2021
New Trump Executive Order Will Pollute Black Communities
June 8, 2020
U.S. Representatives: Here’s Why We Formed the Future of Transportation Caucus
As roads crumble, our public transit systems fail and carbon emissions rise, members of the new Future of Transportation Caucus lay out their vision.
November 14, 2019
Meet the New Congressional Caucus for Transportation
A small group, for now, but eager to debate ways to better fund transit.
October 17, 2019
Less Driving And More Electrics Will Reduce Emissions
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.
October 14, 2019
Greta Thunberg in Denver: “The Older Generations Are Failing Us.”
"We all need to do the seemingly impossible,” said 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg at a climate strike in Denver today.
October 11, 2019
Report: Drivers Inhale More Pollution than Cyclists
October 8, 2019
