Today’s Headlines
Break the High Gas Price Cycle on This Bike to Work Day (LAB, AP) Bikes: A Missing Piece of the Energy Puzzle (BikePortland) Transpo Groups to Senators: Slashing Services Has Consequences (AHN) Will Rick Scott Kill Another High-Speed Rail Line in Florida? (Orlando Sentinel) Biden, Salazar Make the Case for Clean Energy (Politico, The Hill) High-Speed … Continued
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Adam Voiland
8:48 AM EDT on May 20, 2011
- Break the High Gas Price Cycle on This Bike to Work Day (LAB, AP)
- Bikes: A Missing Piece of the Energy Puzzle (BikePortland)
- Transpo Groups to Senators: Slashing Services Has Consequences (AHN)
- Will Rick Scott Kill Another High-Speed Rail Line in Florida? (Orlando Sentinel)
- Biden, Salazar Make the Case for Clean Energy (Politico, The Hill)
- High-Speed Rail Corridors Can Carry Electricity Too (Miller-McCune)
- International Energy Agency Calls for a Boost in Oil Production to Lower Prices (NYT)
- Study: Active Transportation a Boon for Health (Transportation Nation)
- Is New York City Dense Enough? (Grist)
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