Greenhouse Gas
Streetsblog LA
What Happens to Transportation Reform if A.B. 32 Does Get Repealed?
Last week, the New York Times broke the news that Texas based oil companies were funding the ballot initiative that would "temporarily" place the Greenhouse Gas reforms required by A.B. 32 on hold until California's unemployment rate reached 5.5%. When discussing the news with some of my friends, it was greeted with a yawn. After all, this is hardly the first time an out-of-state interest has placed a lot of money behind a ballot proposition, and A.B. 32 spends a lot more time promoting clean fuel than it does human powered transportation or transit.
March 8, 2010
Enviros, Villaraigosa Slam Out of State Oil Companies for Threatening CA Greenhouse Gas Laws
(editor's note: This is Part I of a two part series. Next week we'll look specifically at how the repeal or delaying of this legislation would effect transportation and Livable Streets. - DN)
March 5, 2010
Obama Adviser: If EPA is Blocked on Emissions, Forget About CAFE Deal
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Lisa Jackson extended an olive branch
this week to lawmakers who are pushing to block her from regulating
carbon emissions in the absence of a congressional climate bill, but
Jackson's promise to delay action until next year appears to have made no headway with Republicans and coal-state Democrats.
February 24, 2010
Report: White House Budget Office Helped Weaken EPA Pollution Rule
Pensacola, Florida. Springfield, Missouri. Fort Wayne, Indiana. All
three of those metropolitan areas have populations between 350,000 and
500,000, and all three would have been required to install nitrogen
dioxide monitoring stations near major roadways under a new
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule cracking down on the pollutant.
February 9, 2010
Gov.’s Newest Transit Raid Receiving a Frosty Reception
As Governor Schwarzenegger presses forward with his newest scheme to rob funds dedicated to transit, he's receiving a frosty response from legislators and opinion makers that could spell doom for this plan to balance the budget.
January 22, 2010
GOP Senators Protest Evaluating the Climate Impacts of Transport Projects
The 40-year-old National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA),
which requires the federal government to evaluate the environmental
consequences of future projects, is a valuable tool for local residents
and green groups that work to defeat highway expansions -- but as Streetsblog L.A. noted earlier this year, NEPA can be an equally valuable tool for opponents of clean transportation projects.
October 26, 2009
California Cities Lead Nation in Reducing Emissions from Streetlights
PG&E workers installing an LED streetlight. Photo: PG&E
October 16, 2009
The Assumption of Inconvenience
Early this week, I noticed a number of my favorite bloggers linking to this Elisabeth Rosenthal essay
at Environment 360, on the mysterious greenness of European nations.
The average American, as it happens, produces about twice as much
carbon dioxide each year as your typical resident of Western Europe.
September 30, 2009