While auto debt, traffic fines, over-policing, and automated surveillance systems have suppressed poor people over the last century, the transformation to electric vehicles can reimagine automotive equity — and the sense of freedom that comes from the open road.
Courtesy of NRDC. By Stephanie Gidigbi Jenkins & Deron Lovaas & Kabir Green The Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee passed the Surface Transportation Reauthorization today, taking a step forward toward a comprehensive infrastructure package. However, this is the first step in a marathon of committee markups and floor action, and the bill needs to … [continued]
A new study has noted that women are most likely to die in climate change–related disasters. They are 14 times more likely than men to die from these.
This week, the government of Chile holds a final vote on its first carbon taxation scheme, also the first in South America, a measure to make fossil fuel generators pay for emitting greenhouse gases. The Chile carbon tax is part of a larger program of wide-ranging tax revisions introduced by the country’s … [continued]
Transportation is one of the biggest parts of our lives, whether we think about it or not. How will 2010 help shape the future of transportation in the US? How should it do so? And, more specifically, what is going on in government on this matter? With an expired (in … [continued]
