Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Environmental Justice

Experts See Opportunities in Biden Highway Plan

By Aaron Short | Apr 28, 2021 | No Comments

Transportation leaders believe President Biden’s $2-trillion infrastructure bill will finally get states to stop splurging federal dollars on freeway projects and emissions-enabling concrete superstructures that carve up cities.

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New York EV Rebates Mostly Benefit Wealthy

By Gersh Kuntzman | Apr 26, 2021 | No Comments

Are we encouraging the switch to electric cars — or just encouraging the rich to switch to electric cars?

How to Electrify the Nation’s School Buses

By Kea Wilson | Feb 10, 2021 | No Comments

It will take forever to electrify our transit systems, but yellow school buses could be switched over within the decade, a new report says.

This is the kind of landscape that lithium mining for electric car batteries might destroy. Image courtesy Protect Thacker Pass.

Lithium Mining: The Hidden Environmental Cost of EVs

By Charles Komanoff | Feb 9, 2021 | No Comments

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.

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Op-Ed: Finally, a Chance for Environmental Justice

By Melanie Curry | Jan 8, 2021 | No Comments

The new federal administration promises to join arms with state and local advocates and give leadership to this environmental justice efforts.

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California Connections in the Biden Clean Energy Plan

By Melanie Curry | Nov 12, 2020 | No Comments

Policy recommendations advise replicating some of California's best programs, but time is precious.

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