Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Air Quality

The Bronx Is Burning Over Subsidized Stadium Parking

By Brad Aaron | Sep 7, 2007 | 16 Comments

The people of the South Bronx will organize against the subsidized construction of parking garages for the new Yankee Stadium, one resident said yesterday. At a sparsely attended public hearing in Lower Manhattan, Margaret Collins of Save Our Parks told the New York City Industrial Development Agency (IDA) that a "barely contained rage" is simmering over the traffic the new […]

Take Me Out to the Yankees Parking Subsidy Hearing

By Brad Aaron | Sep 5, 2007 | 18 Comments

As Streetsblog reported back in April, the city is set to subsidize thousands of parking spaces for the new Yankee Stadium by issuing hundreds of millions in tax-exempt bonds for parking deck construction. The Post reported this week that one of the four planned parking structures has been scuttled, but the rest remain on the […]

Japanese Automakers Settle Pollution Suit

By Jason Varone | Sep 5, 2007 | No Comments

Companies have been routinely penalized for deceptive behavior regarding the safety of products like lead, asbestos and tobacco. The Japan Times reports on the latest public health menace to be challenged in courtrooms: The Tokyo High Court proposed Friday that seven automakers pay 1.2 billion yen to hundreds of asthma patients to settle a decade-long […]

Brit’s Liberal Dems Want to Ban Cars Fueled By Gasoline

By Jason Varone | Aug 30, 2007 | 2 Comments

Britain’s Liberal Democrat Party unveiled a detailed plan to tackle climate change which includes a ban on fossil fuel powered cars by 2040. The Guardian reports: The Liberal Democrat leader, Sir Menzies Campbell, and the party’s environment spokesman, Chris Huhne, unveiled the proposal today as part of a package of measures designed to make Britain […]

Carbon Tax vs. Cap and Trade

By Glenn McAnanama | Aug 29, 2007 | 7 Comments

Congressional debate on climate change has revealed division among politicians on how to best regulate carbon emissions. From NPR’s Marketplace, we get a report on the sharp difference between leading Democrats in both houses, Sen. Barbara Boxer (CA) and Rep. John Dingell (MI) Boxer is quoted as preferring cap and trade, which seems to be […]

The Urban Transportation Report Card

By Jason Varone | Aug 20, 2007 | 7 Comments

Transportation Alternatives has teamed up with cycling advocates from Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle to issue the Urban Transportation Report Card (PDF), which rates these cities’ progress on greening their transportation systems. The report notes that transportation accounts for 20-60% of carbon emissions in major U.S. cities, so it is very encouraging that in each city […]

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