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Covering the movement to end car dependency and improve biking, walking and transit in America.

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Air Quality

Multi-State Climate Plan Fails To Please All Advocates

Jeff Wood is the creator of the Talking Headways podcast and editor of the newsletter The Overhead Wire.

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Jeff Wood

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Climate Change

Talking Headways Podcast: A Compass for Sustainability

Coby Lefkowitz is the author of <a href="http://buildingoptimism.substack.com">Building Optimism.</a>

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Coby Lefkowitz

Electric Car Chargers

15 Minute Cities

Electric Vehicles Won’t Save Us

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Cars

Talking Headways Podcast: More Highways, More Driving

Aaron Short is a New York City-based writer with a long history of work with the New York Post, Hell Gate and others. He is also the co-author of &#8220;The Method to the Madness: Donald Trump&#8217;s Ascent as Told by Those Who Were Hired, Fired, Inspired — And Inaugurated.&#8221; (<a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250202819/themethodtothemadness">Macmillan</a>)

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Aaron Short

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Boondoggles

Not So FAST: Senate Transport Bill Causes Pileup for White House Climate Goals

Kea Wilson is Senior Editor for Streetsblog USA. She has more than a dozen years experience as a writer telling emotional, urgent and actionable stories that motivate average Americans to get involved in making their cities better places. She is also a novelist, cyclist, and affordable housing advocate. She lives in St. Louis, MO. For tips, submissions, and general questions, reach out ther at <a href="mailto:kea@streetsblog.org">kea@streetsblog.org,</a> on X at <a href="https://twitter.com/streetsblogkea">@streetsblogkea,</a> or on Bluesky <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/keawilson.bsky.social">@keawilson.bsky.social.</a>

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Kea Wilson

Highway Smog Seattle

Biden Harris

GOP Infrastructure Bill Goes All-In On Cars

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Why The U.S. Needs a Bold 2030 Mode Shift Target

Joe Linton is co-editor of Streetsblog LA.

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Joe Linton

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Interview: California Freeway Expansion Projects Induce Travel, and Underestimate Impacts of Additional Driving

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How to Electrify the Nation’s School Buses

Charles Komanoff is a national expert on congestion pricing and traffic modeling, and is the former head of Transportation Alternatives. He is a longtime Streetsblog contributor. Reach him at <a href="mailto:komanoff@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">komanoff@gmail.com</a>.

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Charles Komanoff

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Lithium Mining: The Hidden Environmental Cost of EVs