Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Environmental Justice

Would a Car-Light City Really Be Quiet?

By Streetsblog | Sep 20, 2022 | No Comments

This week on our podcast, we talk with noise researcher Dr. Erica Walker, who says we're missing a critical conversation about how unique communities experience their local soundscapes, both in the streets and beyond.

A lithium brine evaporation pool in Purmamarca, Jujuy Province, Argentina Photo: Alejo15084 (Streetsblog illustration)

Why Lithium Mining For EV Batteries Should Be Our ‘Absolute Last Resort’

By Kea Wilson | May 3, 2022 | No Comments

"We can't mine our way out of the climate crisis," one activist said.

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City Official Under Fire for Questioning the Benefits and Equity of Transit

By Gersh Kuntzman | May 3, 2022 | No Comments

We always assume more transit means more equity. But a progressive planning commissioner apparently disagrees, sparking quite a conversation.

A woman holds a Just Transition Now sign at a rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Image: Lorie Shaull, CC

Does America Need a ‘Mobility Bill of Rights’?

By Kea Wilson | Feb 7, 2022 | No Comments

And more important: what should be included in it?

GOP governors don't want any curtailment of highway widening. Above, a highway in Pittsburgh. Photo: File

GOP Govs to Biden: Don’t Force Your Progressive Politics on our Highway Projects

By Eve Kessler | Jan 21, 2022 | No Comments

Republican governors banded together to thwart the federal government's push to use the new $1.2-trillion infrastructure package to promote progress on climate change, jobs and racial justice.

An unfiltered image from Salem, Ore. during a 2020 wildfire. Source: Bruhmoney77, CC

Oregon DOT’s Real Climate Plan: Keep on Polluting

By Joe Cortright | Dec 14, 2021 | No Comments

The Oregon DOT’s “Climate Action Plan” claims the agency wants to decrease greenhouse gases, but its revenue projections show it is planning for gasoline consumption not to decline at all – meaning that carbon emissions don’t decline, either.

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