Climate Change

An influential report pins responsibility for the climate crisis to just a handful of oil, gas and cement producers. But who's buying what they're selling — and who's creating policy that makes many of those purchases functionally compulsory?

The Transportation Equity Index calls attention to inequitable distribution of transportation benefits and harms - and creates a new way to map multimodal access

Melanie Curry

March 4, 2024

Advocates knew states would go on a highway widening binge when the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed — but they didn't know it would be quite this bad.

"Endless highway expansions are pulling our country into an environmental, budgetary, and public health crisis," the letter states.

Ten percent of U.S. drivers use 35 percent of our fuel. Instead of focusing on getting them in EVs, though, subsidies miss "super-users" and reinforce car dependency.

The transport sector still leads the nation in greenhouse gas emissions — but that's not all.

All the major advocacy groups want to make it clear to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission: they won't support a regional measure that includes freeway widening

We spoke with one Baby Boomer says his generation needs to step up to end climate change — and he's got some advice.