Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Environmental Justice

America’s Most Toxic Car Ads: Greenwashing Edition

By Streetsblog | Sep 20, 2021 | No Comments

We can't talk about toxic car ads without talking about all the ways that cars literally toxify our communities — and yes, that includes some of the relatively "greener" models, too.

Multi-State Climate Plan Fails To Please All Advocates

By Ethan Goffman | Jul 6, 2021 | No Comments

The latest version of a multistate plan to lower transportation emissions represents an improvement, but still doesn't go far enough on environmental-justice issues, some advocates say.

San Francisco's Great Highway after it was given the "freeways to boulevard" treatment in April, 2020. But that was a COVID-era plan that may not be permanent.

These 15 Urban Highways Have Got to Go

By Kea Wilson | Jun 2, 2021 | No Comments

A leading advocacy group is calling for the removal of 15 urban highways built on land from which millions of BIPOC residents were forcibly displaced — including the site of the Tulsa race massacre of 1921.

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.

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