Environment Archives — Page 7 of 9

Mass. Joins N’East Transport Cap-and-Trade Program

e set aside to fund transit, bike, and pedestrian improvements, in order to give New Englanders more options to get around without burning gasoline.

Christian MilNeil

December 21, 2020

Mass. Joins N’East Transport Cap-and-Trade Program

Streetsblog Massachusetts |Environment

Biden Admin. Appoints Pete Buttigieg for Sec. of Transportation

Buttigieg will have a major responsibility in making sure the Biden administration meets its climate goals.

Christian MilNeil

December 15, 2020

Streetsblog Massachusetts |Environment

Going Green Will Save Mass. Transit Millions

The switch to all-renewable electricity, which would take effect on January 1, 2021, will immediately slash the T's carbon footprint by 36 percent.

Christian MilNeil

October 6, 2020

Streetsblog Massachusetts |Climate emergency

Electric Trucks and Buses Are Coming… Just Not Fast Enough to Save the Climate

Massachusetts has signed a multi-state pact to make zero-emission vehicles at least 30 percent of new bus and truck sales by 2030, and 100 percent by 2050 – but there’s considerable uncertainty about whether the pledge is ambitious enough to help Massachusetts meet its latest climate goals.

Christian MilNeil

August 31, 2020

Streetsblog Massachusetts |Environment

New Mass. Climate Bill Will Reduce Tailpipe Emissions

The Massachusetts House of Representatives passed a significant new climate bill on Friday night that commits the state to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by “at least 50 percent below the 1990 level” within the next decade. The Senate passed a bill with similar goals at the end of January. The two chambers, which recently agreed […]

Christian MilNeil

August 3, 2020

Climate Change

US Cuts Car Pollution, But Less So In Poor Communities

Fine-particle air pollution has decreased across the US, but poor and minority communities are still the most polluted

Kea Wilson

July 31, 2020

Streetsblog Massachusetts |COVID-19

Car-Free Residents Struggle with Food Insecurity

In Mid-March, community members had just planted beets and peas in GreenRoots Chelsea’s 1200-square-foot urban farm. Then the pandemic hit, and social distancing made collective farming impossible. For GreenRoots, a community-based organization striving to achieve environmental justice, the growing season had just begun. The organization immediately adapted to the increasing demands for food and shifted […]

Christian MilNeil

July 21, 2020

Coronavirus

New Trump Executive Order Will Pollute Black Communities

By dismantling key environmental protections, Trump is empowering cities to build highways through black neighborhoods — a heinous form of environmental racism that has killed countless Americans.

Kea Wilson

June 8, 2020

Streetsblog Massachusetts |COVID-19

Study: Highway Pollution Contributes to Higher COVID-19 Death Rates

A new nationwide study from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health suggests that people living in neighborhoods with higher levels of fine particulate air pollution are more likely to die from COVID-19 infection than patients from areas with cleaner air. That’s especially concerning for many of communities of color in Massachusetts, where the legacies […]

Christian MilNeil

April 7, 2020

emissions

Five Reasons Why Trump’s Fuel Standards Rollback is Terrible

Here's the only story you need on why the Trump administration is wrong to gut an Obama-era rule to make cars cleaner and more efficient.

Kea Wilson

April 2, 2020

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