Environment
Basics
Four Reasons to Hold Your Applause For Automakers’ Big EV Promises
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.
February 3, 2021
Drivers Are Still Top Polluters, Even During Quarantine
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.
January 14, 2021
Mass. Joins N’East Transport Cap-and-Trade Program
December 21, 2020
Biden Admin. Appoints Pete Buttigieg for Sec. of Transportation
December 15, 2020
Going Green Will Save Mass. Transit Millions
October 6, 2020
Electric Trucks and Buses Are Coming… Just Not Fast Enough to Save the Climate
August 31, 2020
New Mass. Climate Bill Will Reduce Tailpipe Emissions
August 3, 2020
US Cuts Car Pollution, But Less So In Poor Communities
Fine-particle air pollution has decreased across the US, but poor and minority communities are still the most polluted
July 31, 2020
Car-Free Residents Struggle with Food Insecurity
July 21, 2020
New Trump Executive Order Will Pollute Black Communities
By dismantling key environmental protections, Trump is empowering cities to build highways through black neighborhoods — a heinous form of environmental racism that has killed countless Americans.
June 8, 2020
