EV Rebates Overwhelmingly Benefit Wealthy Suburbanites
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The Baker administration has spent $14 million to subsidize purchases of new Teslas, whose products are all categorized as "luxury" cars.
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Study Discovers High Levels of Air Pollution on Subways
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The study team found that the average level of fine particulate pollution on Boston's underground subway platforms was 139.8 micrograms per cubic meter – a level of pollution that's categorized as "unhealthy" under the EPA's air quality index.
How to Electrify the Nation’s School Buses
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It will take forever to electrify our transit systems, but yellow school buses could be switched over within the decade, a new report says.
Lithium Mining: The Hidden Environmental Cost of EVs
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The Green New Deal is clearly better than our carbon-based catastrophic course. But it also depends on massive amounts of lithium — and extracting it will carry a big environmental cost of its own.
Hold Your Applause For Car Makers' EV Promises
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General Motors aims to manufacture only electric vehicles by 2035 — but advocates are skeptical that the move will have much of a climate impact without a slate of accompanying policy changes.
Drivers Are Still Top Polluters, Even During Quarantine
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Not even months of quarantine orders that confined millions of Americans to their homes were enough to unseat passenger vehicle trips as the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, a new study finds.