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Covering the movement to end car dependency and improve biking, walking and transit in America.

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Tanya became Streetsblog&#8217;s Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radios Washington bureau and for public radio stations around the country. She lives car-free in a transit-oriented and bike-friendly neighborhood of Washington, DC.

Tanya Snyder

Barbara Boxer

Mica Warns Boxer on Highway Trust Fund; House Plans Hearing on “Drill Bill”

House of Representatives

Coming Soon: Super-Partisan “Oil-For-Infrastructure” Transpo Bill

Barack Obama

Republicans Have Their Own Plan to Pay for Infrastructure Jobs: Oil Drilling

Angie is a Cleveland-based writer with a background in planning and newspaper reporting. She has been writing about cities for Streetsblog for six years.

Angie Schmitt

Car Dependence

Exxon: ‘One Mega-Highway, Please.’ Texas: ‘Coming Right Up’

Deron Lovaas

NRDC

Big Oil Lobbies to Keep Its Tax Breaks Off the Table in Debt Talks

So Many Subsidies for Big Oil, So Little Political Will to End Them

Gas Prices

Republicans Still Swear Drill, Baby, Drill Is the Best Way to Lower Gas Prices

Retired Military Leaders, Corporate CEOs: Driving Alone Aids Terrorists

Congestion Pricing

Paying at the Pump for Oil Wars: A Plausible Option?

Anne Lutz Fernandez is a former corporate executive with experience in management and marketing of consumer brands such as Weight Watchers frozen foods and Bufferin pain relievers. She also spent a decade as an investment banker in New York and London where her work included marketing the firm&#8217;s services to multinational corporations and advising clients on strategic mergers and acquisitions. She left her position as Director at Credit Suisse to become a writer and teacher. She currently teaches English and lives in Connecticut with her husband, who is also a teacher. She co-authored her first book, Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and its Effect on our Lives, with her sister, anthropologist Catherine Lutz.

Anne Lutz Fernandez

Cars

BP, Toyota, and the Illusion of the Car System Techno-Fix