pollution
Lyft to Add 200 Electric Vehicles to Its Colorado Fleet
Governor Polis and Mayor Hancock announced this morning that the ride-hail company Lyft will add 200 electric vehicles to its Colorado fleet, a move Polis says will clean up polluted air and save drivers money.
November 14, 2019
SBD in the Colorado Sun: Want to Solve the Climate Crisis? Stop Widening Roads
To honor this second Global Climate Strike today, Gov. Jared Polis and Mayor Michael Hancock must commit to stop building new roads and expanding the ones we have.
September 20, 2019
Colorado Adopts California Zero Emission Vehicle Rule
Today Colorado approved a rule that requires automakers to sell more electric vehicles in the state. The mandate intends to bring a wider range of electric models to car dealers, reduce carbon emissions and clean up polluted air.
August 16, 2019
Fix Your Bike for Free With Repair Kits Now Available at All Denver Libraries
If your bike needs its tires pumped up, a flat fixed or even more extensive maintenance, you can now check out a repair kit and do it yourself for free at any of Denver’s 26 public libraries. The city hopes the kits will get more people bicycling to support its citywide goals around health, the environment and mobility.
June 12, 2019
Expert: Colorado Should Build High-Speed Rail Along I-25
As Colorado studies rail options along the congested I-25 corridor, experts say few would ride options slower than high-speed rail. But a well-funded anti-rail cabal is likely to defeat any push for bullet trains.
June 3, 2019
Oakland Plans to Tear Down Major Freeway While Denver Keeps Expanding I-70
Why is Denver still expanding I-70? The move to tear down I-980 in Oakland shows that forward-thinking officials elsewhere get it: The problems associated with mega-motorways in urban neighborhoods outweigh the benefits.
April 18, 2019
Zoning and Pollution: Preserving Neighborhood Character While Increasing Density Can Get People out of Cars
As Denver's air quality gets worse and the city struggles to reduce its dependency on cars, building more housing units in buildings that look like single-family homes could help the city tackle both problems.
April 16, 2019
Kids Demand Climate Action While Colorado Politicians Blow off Urgent Need to Transform Urban Transportation
After the Global Climate Strike, where students in Colorado and around the world demanded climate action, elected officials at all levels of Colorado government appear to be shrugging their shoulders, offering political agendas that fail to envision a better transportation future.
March 18, 2019
It’s Fair to Compare Denver’s Air Pollution to Beijing
On Wednesday we ran a story, Fossil Fuels Choke Denver With Air Quality 3 Times Worse Than Beijing. Several critiques of the piece showed up in its comments section and on Reddit. This post responds to three. 1) The pollution is the fault of an inversion layer, a weather pattern that traps particulate matter. The weather did not create … Continued
March 8, 2019
Breaking: Fossil Fuels Choke Denver With Air Quality 3 Times Worse Than Beijing
Today from downtown Denver, the peaks of the Rocky Mountain foothills were barely visible through the brown cloud of pollution that covered the region with an unhealthy level of fine particulate matter.
March 6, 2019
