- How Will Energy Czar Browner Use Her Growing Clout? (Politico)
- Tom Friedman Asks: Where's America's Moonshot to Achieve Energy Independence? (NYT)
- GOP Takeover Could Threaten High-Speed Rail Plans (Transport Politic)
- LA and Beijing Partner to Seek Traffic Solutions (AP)
- Polls Show Why Brown, Crist's Constituents Should Embrace Climate Action (Clean Technica)
- Why Is the Public So Reluctant to Pay for Transportation? (Transpo Nation)
- San Francisco Envisions a Less Car-Centric Future (Grist)
- NTSB Official: We Need to Get Serious About the Dangers of Fatigue on the Roads (WaPo)
- New Map Offers a Global View of Fine Air Pollution (WSJ)
- LaHood: Let's End the Deadly Epidemic of Distracted Driving (Fastlane)
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