Energy
Basics
Dear Trump: the Future Belongs to the Efficient
Trump abandoned climate protection goals claiming that cheap fossil fuel helps consumers and the economy. A mobility-focused analysis shows that he is wrong: resource efficiency is the key to health, economic success and happiness.
March 4, 2026
Streetsblog Board Member Lands Major Job with Biden White House
Gabe Klein, a former Chicago and D.C. transportation agency leader — and a Streetsblog NYC and USA board member — has been chosen by “Electric” Joe Biden to head the administration’s Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, which was established by the bipartisan infrastructure bill and will hand out $7.5 billion in funding for the coming EV charging network.
September 20, 2022
Opinion: Ending Our Oil Addiction Is a Moral Imperative for Inflation and the Climate
The amount we drive is a matter of public policy, shaped by land use and transportation policies that underinvest in transit and make walking and biking ever more dangerous. We can flip that starting now.
August 26, 2022
Talking Headways Podcast: No More Transit Hunger Games
This week Dan Baer, senior vice president at WSP, talks with Kevin Corbett, president and CEO of New Jersey Transit. In this one-on-one conversation, Baer and Corbett talk about NJ Transit’s response to the pandemic, bus electrification, new technologies, and much more.
July 29, 2021
What Biden’s Other Cabinet Picks Might Mean For Sustainable Transportation
Pete Buttigieg drew most of the attention earlier this week, but two other key cabinet appointments this week could signal that electric vehicles remain at the center of the President-elect's climate strategy — despite evidence that transit, walking and biking is far more critical to cutting greenhouse gases.
December 17, 2020
Talking Headways Podcast: Buildings, Transportation, and Power
How are we going to get to net zero carbon emissions? It's hard.
November 19, 2020
Advocates Question AOC and Levin’s ‘EV Freedom Bill’
The bill would electrify American transportation and help slow climate change — but might reinforce autodependency in the process.
February 10, 2020
EV Hummer Bummer, Part II: Bad News For Emissions
This is the second part of Streetsblog's ongoing series about GMC's new Hummer EV — which is a disaster no matter that it's powered by electrons instead of gasoline.
February 5, 2020
America’s SUVs Are Killing the Planet: U.N.
They're coming for your SUVs, America. Good!
November 27, 2019
Schumer Pushes Electric Cars — Here’s Why He’s Wrong
Message to the senior senator from New York: Electric cars are still cars — and they still suck.
October 25, 2019
