Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Climate Change

What Will Our Future Be Like If We Don’t Change How We Get Around?

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 5, 2013 | No Comments

How will Americans get around in the year 2030? A recent report from the RAND Corporation lays out two “plausible futures” developed though a “scenario analysis” and vetted by outside experts. While RAND takes a decidedly agnostic stance toward the implications of each scenario, the choice that emerges is still pretty stark. In the first […]

Obama’s Climate Speech: Mostly Mum on Transportation

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 25, 2013 | No Comments

President Obama announced a sweeping package of measures to address combat climate change today. But with a couple of exceptions, he was largely silent on the third of carbon emissions that come from the transportation sector. One of the president’s most important reforms is the announcement that he will issue a presidential memorandum to the EPA […]

Most Candidates Endorse Traffic Reduction, But Few Offer Plans to Achieve It

By Jonathan Tarleton | Apr 23, 2013 | 4 Comments

Last night’s mayoral forum on sustainability at Cooper Union was the first to attract the full slate of candidates this election season, perhaps a sign that environmental issues now figure prominently in the campaigns’ electoral calculus. Organized by the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund and the Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design, […]

Will Big Highway Projects Have to Consider Climate Change?

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 21, 2013 | No Comments

Since 1970, the National Environmental Protection Act has required federal agencies to consider the impacts of their projects on air, water, and soil pollution — but not on climate change. Until recently, carbon dioxide, which causes global warning, wasn’t classified as a pollutant and so couldn’t be regulated under environmental laws. The EPA in 2009 […]

Study: Electric Cars Not So Green Unless Powered by Renewables

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 5, 2012 | No Comments

A study by the government of the Australian state of Victoria highlights the limits of electric cars, in isolation, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Victorian government’s ongoing “electric vehicle trial” [PDF] found that electric cars powered by coal may actually produce more carbon emissions than petroleum-fueled cars over the lifetime of the vehicle, from manufacturing […]

Rebuilding New York City for a New Reality

By John Kaehny | Nov 2, 2012 | 20 Comments

“Climate change is a reality… for us to sit here today and say this is a once-in-a-generation, and it’s not going to happen again, I think would be short-sighted… I’m hopeful that not only will we rebuild this city and metropolitan area but use this as an opportunity to build it back smarter.” — Governor […]

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