Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Climate Change

Your Burger or Your Car! (And More Fun with False Dichotomies)

By Elana Schor | Jul 29, 2009 | 7 Comments

The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein, whose blog is a must-read look at the political dynamics of congressional policy-making, makes an eyebrow-raising assertion in his food column today: Photo: CowCar It’s not simply that meat is a contributor to global warming; it’s that it is a huge contributor. Larger, by a significant margin, than the global […]

Oberstar to White House: On Emissions, Back Up Your Words With Action

By Elana Schor | Jul 28, 2009 | No Comments

Appearing this morning at the release of a new report on transportation’s role in fighting climate change, House transportation committee chairman Jim Oberstar (D-MN) challenged the Obama administration to back up their emissions rhetoric with action and pass his six-year, $450 billion infrastructure bill. FTA’s Peter Rogoff (in hard hat) heard strong words from Rep. […]

Lawmakers Pitch Transport Funding Ideas, From VMT to Freight Taxes

By Elana Schor | Jul 23, 2009 | No Comments

Leaders of the House transportation committee, doggedly pursuing a six-year, $450 billion infrastructure bill this year, pressed their case this morning before Ways and Means Committee colleagues who must approve a new funding mechanism for their massive legislation. On transport funding, a question looms: Whither Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel (D-NY)? (Photo: BusinessWeek) […]

Dems. in Senate Pushing Transit Into Climate Change

By Elana Schor | Jul 22, 2009 | No Comments

Addressing a climate change forum this morning, two Democrats on the Senate environment committee said they are pushing for transit and other green modes of transport to get 10 percent of the revenue generated by the upcoming Senate bill regulating carbon emissions. Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) (Photo: DTI) Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE), a chief sponsor […]

White House Staying Quiet For Now on Transit’s Role in Climate Bill

By Elana Schor | Jul 15, 2009 | 1 Comment

Delivering his climate-change message to Congress yesterday, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood warned that fuel-efficiency advances secured by the Obama administration would not be enough to reduce emissions from transportation — not without encouraging Americans to drive less. Transportation Secretary LaHood said today he’ll weigh in later on climate-change money for transit. (Photo: HillBuzz) But when […]

Taking GOP Graphics a Bit Too Seriously

By Elana Schor | Jul 10, 2009 | 1 Comment

(Photo: Sen. Kit Bond [R-MO]) Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO), one of his chamber’s leading opponents of action against climate change, has swiped the hilariously complicated "chart" that his House colleagues used last month in a futile attempt to portray emissions reductions as just too complex for the American people to stomach. Complaining about the length […]

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