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October 2009
Tue 20: New Study Shows $56 Billion in Hidden Health Damage From Autos 1
September 2009
Wed 30: Senate Climate Bill Released With Much Fanfare, Little Focus on Transport 0
Tue 22: Report: 10 Percent Transit Growth Would Help Meet House Climate Target 0
June 2009
Fri 26: The House Is Debating Its Climate Legislation Right Now [Updated] 1
February 2009
Wed 25: Obama: America "Cannot Walk Away" From the Automobile 27
January 2009
Wed 21: The Last Thing This Nation Needs 21
November 2008
Thu 20: Dingell Wanes as Waxman Takes Over Energy and Commerce 4
Mon 17: GM's Ransom Note to America 29
Mon 10: Pelosi, Reid and Emanuel Push for Carmaker Bailout 27
Fri 7: Share Your National Vision With the President-Elect 8
Thu 6: Bike-Hating Rep. Patrick McHenry Fends Off Challenger 4
Wed 5: Ped-Bike Mockery Flops for 7-Term House Incumbent 10
Mon 3: Letters to David Brooks: Yes to Infrastructure, No to Highways 1
October 2008
Fri 31: Newt Gingrich: I Vant to Suck Your Oil 12
Thu 2: Bailout Bill Includes Bike Commuting Benefit 22
September 2008
Tue 30: Cartoon Tuesday: Who's Gonna Keep You Supplied, Man? 0
Mon 29: Jim Kunstler on the Bail Out and What's Next 9
Fri 26: Where They Stand: Obama and McCain on Transportation 5
Tue 9: Cartoon Tuesday: Vote for Oil 0
Thu 4: Palin to RNC: It's Drill or "Do Nothing at All" 5
August 2008
Fri 29: How Do We Make Clean Transportation Part of the National Discussion? 22
Wed 27: Pew Poll: Most Americans Want More Transit Investment 5
Tue 26: Cartoon Tuesday: Conventional Wisdom 0
Tue 19: Cartoon Tuesday: No Pressure 0
Tue 12: Cartoon Tuesday: In Which We Blog About the Other Paris 5
Thu 7: Obama's Energy Platform Has a (Small) Livable Cities Plank 10
Wed 6: Energy Policy Straight Talk From Elizabeth Kolbert 7
July 2008
Tue 29: Cartoon Tuesday: The Elegant Simplicity of the Free Market 0
Fri 25: $36,000,000,000 for Corn. $0 for Transit. 16
Fri 25: The Pentagon Burns 395,000 Barrels of Oil Per Day 6
Wed 23: Fuel Costs, Declining Revenues Slam MTA. Will Anyone Face the Facts? 9
Wed 23: How to Ease Pain at the Pump Without Deepening Oil Dependence 8
Tue 22: Cartoon Tuesday: Drilling Deeper 0
Tue 22: McCain: Drilling Is the Cure for What Ails U.S. 3
Mon 21: Al Gore Connects the Dots 32
June 2008
Thu 26: Obama, Ethanol, and the "New Metropolitan Reality" 17
Fri 6: National Transit Union Proposes a Smart Fuel Subsidy 29
Thu 5: "My Next Vehicle Will Be a Bicycle" 16
Thu 5: Back in the Saddle? 9
May 2008
Wed 28: Joe Lieberman: Did Someone Say "High Gas Prices"? 23
Tue 27: National Poll: Americans Expect Gas Prices to Rise More 20
Thu 15: Q Poll Finds Americans Opposed to Gas Tax "Holiday" 2
Wed 14: Electeds Go to the Mat for Cheap Gas 7
Thu 8: Mixed Messages From Critic of NY Gas Tax Holiday 8
Wed 7: Delaware Senator Dares to Utter the Word "Transit" 18
Wed 7: Clinton Camp May Rethink Gas Tax Strategy 13
Tue 6: Cartoon Tuesday: "Holiday" 7
Mon 5: Sign a Petition to Clinton and McCain at GasTaxScam.com 2
Fri 2: How Much Would You Actually Save With a Gas Tax "Holiday"? 21
April 2008
Wed 23: "Crisis" Mode AAA Urges Panicked Drivers to Take Transit 36
March 2008
Mon 3: 2008: Year of the Bicycle? 8
February 2008
Mon 25: Is Big Environment Ready to Say America Is Hooked on Cars? 13
Tue 12: London Imposes $50 Guzzler Fee on SUVs and Lux Roadsters 12
January 2008
Tue 29: No Clear Transpo Agenda From GOP Presidential Candidates 8
Thu 24: First "Smart" Car Arrives in New York 21
Tue 22: Masdar: Arabic for Chutzpah? 54
Fri 18: Resolved: More Driving for Teachers, Less for Everyone Else 15
Wed 2: Is Barack Obama the Livable Streets Candidate? 19
November 2007
Mon 19: Wall Street Journal Declares Peak Oil No Longer a "Fringe" Idea 11
Tue 13: Green Subways: An Answer Blowing in the Wind? 7
October 2007
Mon 15: The MTA is Testing Battery-Powered Buses 6
Mon 8: The World's Greenest, Most Livable Cities 9
September 2007
Wed 19: The Black Car Project: Filling the Autovoid 9
Sat 15: Conference: Energy: The 1st Challenge of the 21st Century 0
Thu 13: World Cities Adding One Million People Every Week 2
August 2007
Thu 30: Brit's Liberal Dems Want to Ban Cars Fueled By Gasoline 2
Wed 29: Carbon Tax vs. Cap and Trade 7
Thu 23: Delivering the Goods to a Growing New York 7
Wed 15: Weiner on the Environment: Big Talk, Small Stick 52
Mon 13: More on Rep. Patrick McHenry 3
Thu 9: Congressman Ridicules Bikes as "19th Century Solution" 79
July 2007
Mon 30: Sadik-Khan: Many Initiatives Are Under Way... 7
Fri 27: Dying to Get to Work 11
Wed 25: Americans Vote for Fuel Efficiency. Why Do They Buy Guzzlers? 18
Fri 6: The Suburbanist Paradox 13
Fri 6: Times Says: We Must Pay More for Fossil Fuels 2
Mon 2: How US Energy Emissions Compare (It's Not Pretty) 2
June 2007
Wed 27: Addicted To Oil: Ranking States’ Vulnerability 3
Mon 25: Book Review: Twenty-Three Years to Save the Planet 8
Thu 21: Albany Fiddles Over Congestion Pricing... 3
Mon 18: An Old Car Interred 19
Thu 14: Quebec Approves Carbon Tax on Fuels to Cut Greenhouse Gases 5
Tue 12: Rising Gas Prices Hurt Truck Sales 0
Thu 7: Chicago Alley Initiative Shows How to Make Streets Greener 0
May 2007
Tue 22: Hail the Yassky Cab: All NYC Taxis to be Hybrid by 2012 20
Tue 22: Gas Costs More? Fill ’Er Up! 6
Wed 16: The Clock is Ticking for PlaNYC 1
Mon 14: PlanNYC's Public Political Push Starts Today 1
Thu 10: There Are Certain Facts That We've All Got to Face Up To 4
Wed 9: Biofuels, Bus Lanes and Beer 7
April 2007
Wed 25: PlaNYC: Foster the Market For Renewable Energy 9
Fri 20: The Ultimate System: Free Mass Transit and Congestion Pricing 15
Tue 17: In the East River, Verdant Power Sleeps With the Fishes 14
Fri 13: Find Yourself a City to Live In 8
March 2007
Fri 30: Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? 1
Wed 28: An English Plan in New York 3
Tue 27: Sydney Organizes World's First Climate Change Blackout 1
Fri 23: NYC School Construction and Maintenance Going Green 5
Thu 22: Ethanol's Growing List of Enemies 3
Wed 14: Why Is Saudi Arabia's Oil Production Down? 11
Thu 8: "People Act as Though the Hybrid Could Solve All Our Problems" 4
Wed 7: Ethanol: Feed a Person for a Year or Fill Up an SUV? 7
Wed 7: The Greening of the Times 0
Tue 6: CO2 from Shipping Twice as Much as Airlines 13
February 2007
Wed 28: Schumer & Clinton Backing Upstate NIMBY's Against Wind Power 8
Wed 28: Green Collar Jobs for Urban America 0
Fri 23: New York Could be a Global Leader in Alternative Energy 6
Fri 23: Green Revolution Sweeping Through U.S. Cities 0
Tue 20: PlanNYC 2030: What makes a Community Sustainable? 4
Fri 16: PBS to America: Fight Global Warming, Drive an SUV 11
December 2006
Fri 22: New German Community Models Car-Free Living 2
Mon 18: Holiday Book Recommendations Open Thread 15
Tue 12: Futurama 2030: Bloomberg Outlines Ambitious 10-Point Agenda 37
Tue 12: Parochial Thinking Amid Ominous Signs 1
Tue 12: Bloomberg: "New York City 2030: Accepting the Challenge" 29
November 2006
Wed 29: Hydrogen: Not as Green as it Seems 5
Mon 20: Electrification of the Region's Rail 15
Thu 2: Eat More Carbohydrates, Burn More Hydrocarbons 1
October 2006
Tue 17: The Cost of Sprawl on Low-Income Families 8
Wed 4: Can Sprawl Be Beneficial? 19
Mon 2: Pricing for Sustainability 6
September 2006
Thu 14: City Council Votes for Cheap Gas and More Parking 7
Wed 13: Bill Clinton's Reading List: Richard Heinberg 2
Wed 6: Richard Heinberg: Saudi Oil Supply May be Crashing 10
Fri 1: Cars, Ethanol and Patriotism 13
August 2006
Wed 30: How Do We 'Fuel' the Future? 0
Wed 23: The True Cost of Gasoline, and What to Do About Energy 10
Mon 7: Bloomberg on Oil Dependence: Punditry or Policy? 1
July 2006
Mon 24: Pseudo-Environmental Hummers 9
Fri 7: Sierra Club Energy Forum 0
June 2006
Wed 28: Charles Komanoff's "Fuel Tax Magic" 0