Today’s Headlines
Former Transportation Secretary Mary Peters, appointed by George W. Bush, says a vehicle miles traveled tax ultimately must replace the gas tax (Cascadia Prospectus) Uh-oh: A pivotal aide to Boxer’s Senate environment committee jumps ship right as her climate change bill comes out (ClimateWire) Gas prices to keep dipping towards the $2 per gallon mark, … Continued
By
Elana Schor
7:48 AM EDT on October 7, 2009
- Former Transportation Secretary Mary Peters, appointed by George W. Bush, says a vehicle miles traveled tax ultimately must replace the gas tax (Cascadia Prospectus)
- Uh-oh: A pivotal aide to Boxer’s Senate environment committee jumps ship right as her climate change bill comes out (ClimateWire)
- Gas prices to keep dipping towards the $2 per gallon mark, according to AAA (WaPo)
- Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), hardly the model of progressive environmentalism, is taking flak from his party for supporting a low-carbon fuel standard (WSJ)
- Was the late New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D) unfairly shut out of Planetizen’s Top 100 Urban Thinkers? (TNR)
- Transit advocates in Montgomery County, Maryland, release a “secret plan” that the local DOT tried to keep under wraps — its ostensible purpose to move more cars through the National Institute of Health campus (GGW)
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