Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Energy

Streetsblog Board Member Lands Major Job with Biden White House

By Gersh Kuntzman | Sep 20, 2022 | No Comments

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.

Opinion: Ending Our Oil Addiction Is a Moral Imperative for Inflation and the Climate

By Dennis Markatos-Soriano and Mike McGinn | Aug 26, 2022 | No Comments

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.

Talking Headways Podcast: No More Transit Hunger Games

By Jeff Wood | Jul 29, 2021 | No Comments

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.

Jennifer Granholm, left, and Gina McCarthy, right. Images via Creative Commons.

Unpacking Biden's 'Climate-Change' Cabinet

By Kea Wilson | Dec 17, 2020 | No Comments

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.

Talking Headways Podcast: Buildings, Transportation, and Power

By Jeff Wood | Nov 19, 2020 | No Comments

How are we going to get to net zero carbon emissions? It's hard.

Photo of Andy Levin Via Michigan Advance. Photo of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez via Creative Commons.

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Advocates Question AOC and Levin’s ‘EV Freedom Bill’

By Kea Wilson | Feb 10, 2020 | No Comments

The bill would electrify American transportation and help slow climate change — but might reinforce autodependency in the process.

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