Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Transportation Policy

The Senate Climate Bill Reaches a First Milestone Today — Maybe

By Damien Newton | Nov 3, 2009 | No Comments

The Senate environment committee is slated to begin formally voting on its climate change bill today in an atmosphere of high drama, thanks to Republican members who have vowed to boycott the proceedings in a bid to delay the legislative process. Senate environment chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA), at right, with the panel’s top Republican, Jim […]

Is America Subsidizing Sprawl?

By Ryan Avent | Nov 2, 2009 | 1 Comment

One of the themes of the financial and economic crisis we’ve faced over the past two years is that government, pressed into responding to serious economic pain, has often found itself supporting the activities that got us into this mess in the first place. Sign of the times? Sde-by-side foreclosures in Massachusetts. (Photo: Yovani via […]

Transportation Policy Becomes the Proverbial Tree Falling in the Forest

By Elana Schor | Oct 28, 2009 | No Comments

Halfway through this afternoon’s rally in support of a new federal transportation bill, there came an accidental but telling moment. A group of tourists, attracted by the hundreds of orange flags planted in the National Mall for the rally, walked through the event and whispered questions to attendees about its purpose. Once their curiosity was […]

At Senate Climate Hearings, Lots of Transport Talk and All Eyes on Baucus

By Elana Schor | Oct 28, 2009 | No Comments

Yesterday, the Senate environment committee held the first in a three-part marathon of hearings on its climate change legislation, with supporters singling out the bill’s investments in clean transportation even as one senior Democrat notably withheld his support from the measure. Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) (Photo: Baucus 08) The Senate climate bill calls […]

GOP Senators Protest Evaluating the Climate Impacts of Transport Projects

By Elana Schor | Oct 26, 2009 | No Comments

The 40-year-old National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA), which requires the federal government to evaluate the environmental consequences of future projects, is a valuable tool for local residents and green groups that work to defeat highway expansions — but as Streetsblog L.A. noted earlier this year, NEPA can be an equally valuable tool for opponents of […]

Senate Climate Bill Triples the House’s Investments in Clean Transportation

By Elana Schor | Oct 26, 2009 | 1 Comment

The Senate environment committee released new details of its climate change legislation over the weekend, including the share of "emissions allowances" — the revenue generated by regulating carbon in a cap-and-trade system — that the bill would reserve for various sectors of the American economy. Sens. John Kerry (D-MA) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA), the climate […]

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