Developing a modern, efficient public transportation infrastructure would create millions of jobs in the United States and improve our quality of life while reducing dangerous pollution and our reliance on oil.
Posted May 23, 2012 by Simon Mui in Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
Over thirty million Americans will be on the road this Memorial Day holiday weekend heading to vacation with family and friends according to a survey produced by the automobile group AAA. With so many travelers inevitably having to stop at...continued→
Posted May 23, 2012 by Deron Lovaas in U.S. Law and Policy
As a small group of House and Senate leaders hammer out the details of the transportation bill mostly behind closed doors, don’t be a silent partner in this vitally important process. NRDC is joining with organizations across the country by...continued→
Posted May 15, 2012 by Rob Perks in Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, U.S. Law and Policy
President Obama signed a declaration making this National Transportation Week. “Our roads, rails, runways and shipyards have formed the foundation for a thriving global marketplace, and our transportation networks have enabled our first responders and service members to react with speed and...continued→
Posted May 11, 2012 by Alice Henly in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Health and the Environment
Over the past few years sports greening has taken the U.S. by storm. All major professional leagues have joined forces with NRDC to make commitments to environmental stewardship, and have already achieved impressive environmental accomplishments to boot. But this...continued→
Posted May 11, 2012 by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
The transportation and energy debate has suffered this past year. Analysts and industry types from Dan Yergin to the National Petroleum Council, and many others, have pointed breathlessly to methods developed by the industry (horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing) and consequent...continued→
Posted May 7, 2012 by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
The authors of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study released last week must have been sniffing gas fumes when they drastically overestimated the effects of the proposed fuel economy standards on the Highway Trust Fund. The study claims that proposed changes...continued→
Posted May 4, 2012 by Rocky Kistner in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil
TransCanada’s latest Keystone XL tar sands pipeline plan filed with the U.S. State Department has done nothing to quell local Nebraska opposition to the controversial project to pipe tar sands oil all the way to the Gulf for export. Nebraska residents say...continued→
Posted May 3, 2012 by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
Did you see this eye-catching opinion piece about the polarization in Congress drawn from a new book by a couple of authors who wrote The Broken Branch: How Congress is Failing America and How to Get it Back on Track (which is worth a...continued→
Posted May 3, 2012 by Anthony Swift in Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
The House is once again jeopardizing an important transportation bill by attaching non-related amendments, including a measure that would approve the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that the President rejected in January. The bill is going into conference next week...continued→
Posted May 3, 2012 by Amanda Eaken in Curbing Pollution, Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming
On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal ran a lengthy letter by California Senate President Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg, in response to Wendell Cox’s April 7th piece California Declares War on Suburbia. In it, Steinberg handily refutes Cox’s wild somersaults of...continued→
