Tag: transportation
NYC’s Riders Alliance has a vision for a better, safer subway...
A Q&A on how the alliance is organizing riders for new community investments and how they’re pushing back against regressive narratives about public safety in the city and state.
EV charging stations approved for 50 states plus DC and Puerto...
States will have access to $1.5 billion in federal monies to build the chargers.
Revolutionary changes in transportation, from electric vehicles to ride sharing, could...
In the newly released IPCC report, scientists concluded that immediate cuts are necessary to stop emissions. Systemic changes currently underway in the transportation sector could begin lowering that emissions footprint—but will it be enough?
How the U.S. transportation system fuels inequality
For decades, the federal government has allocated about four times as much funding to roadways as it has to public transit such...
Longtime climate science foe David Schnare uses ‘scare tactics’ to bash...
“It’s a clear case of fear-mongering, setting up a straw man argument that is just not reflective of reality.”
Routing the two-tier economy: Part I – transportation
As long as there are great wealth and poverty in our country, we will never get completely rid of two-tier systems.
Our post-carbon future depends on electric vehicles – our Congress controls their...
The fossil fuel industry is working hard to eliminate a tax credit that reduces emissions and creates jobs.
Elon Musk and Rahm Emanuel’s new transportation scheme is a privatization...
The development is yet another example of Emanuel’s plan to transform Chicago into a city for the wealthy few.
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Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
Speeding up the ‘kill chain’: Pentagon bombs thousands of targets in Iran using Palantir...
The system, known as Project Maven, relies on technology by Palantir and also incorporates the AI model Claude built by Anthropic. Israel has used similar AI targeting programs in Iran, as well as in Gaza and Lebanon.
DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
Searching for solace in a nuclearized world
The nightmare of Fukushima 15 years later.
Big Oil profits surge as Democrats push windfall tax tied to Iran war
Lawmakers and advocacy groups propose taxing fossil fuel windfalls as war-driven price spikes hit American households and deepen inequality.