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Op-Ed: Vermont’s Lessons for Controlling Emissions
An agency that was built to discourage electric use shows how the best, greenest vehicle mile is the one not travelled.
November 1, 2021
Study: A Road Pricing Scheme That Actually Cuts Driving
Participants in a study who received cash for choosing modes of transport that are most beneficial to society ended up driving far less than study participants who did not get the reward — a finding that suggests that the U.S. could reduce many car trips if existing auto-centric incentives were altered.
October 12, 2021
Study: How Megacars, More Driving Could Cancel Out EV Gains
Even the most realistic models of the emissions-cutting potential of electric vehicles are still underestimating how much more Americans are likely to drive and their preference for gas-powered megacars, a new study suggests.
September 29, 2021
These Four Bills Could Help Loosen Car Dependency’s Grip On U.S. Cities
The next infrastructure package might bring some of sustainable transportation advocates' most long-sought bills back to life — and establish new pots of money for bike lanes, sidewalks, and more.
March 3, 2021
Study: Taking An App Taxi More than Doubles Your Roadway Impact
The average Uber or Lyft customer is responsible for adding more than twice as many car miles to his city's roads as he was before he started using app-taxis to get around.
January 23, 2021
COVID May Take 14 Million Cars Off the Road Forever
But if we don't act fast, they'll come back.
August 3, 2020
Half of Americans Want Drivers Who Drive More to Pay More
People are starting to get behind a VMT tax. (Um, so what's a vehicle miles traveled tax?)
July 20, 2020
New Rule on Environmental Impacts of Driving, Long Awaited, Goes Into Effect on Wednesday
June 30, 2020
DATA DUMP: Total Driving is Down in All Major U.S. Cities
Americans are indeed driving less — up to 94 percent less in some places — as the global COVID-19 pandemic keeps people at home, but rural segments of the country are not doing their share to flatten the curve.
April 6, 2020
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.
April 2, 2020
