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Days after COP26, US pledge to cut aviation emissions gets rerouted
Biden’s EPA will keep a Trump-era emissions standard for airplanes — that doesn’t actually cut emissions.
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![An electric vehicle charging station sign and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe flag]()
![An electric vehicle charging station sign and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe flag]()
Midwest tribes awarded $6.6 million to build their own EV charging network
After years of battling pipelines, it's another way to fight back against fossil fuels.
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![Pete Buttigieg speaks at a press conference at COP26.]()
![Pete Buttigieg speaks at a press conference at COP26.]()
At COP26, Pete Buttigieg makes a pitch to decarbonize American transport
The Secretary of Transportation on the U.S.'s electric vehicle future.
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![Police and the county coroner investigate a deadly car crash.]()
![Police and the county coroner investigate a deadly car crash.]()
20,000 deaths and counting: As mass transit stagnates, US traffic deaths surge
"People that are walking and driving in cities and towns across the country are really at risk."
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![An electric vehicle plugged into a charging station.]()
Congress is poised to fix the most annoying thing about buying an electric car
The new EV tax credit would be $12,500 — and refundable.
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![A cargo ship goes through the water and a field.]()
![A cargo ship goes through the water and a field.]()
Can farm waste help clean up the world’s dirty cargo ships?
The shipping giant Maersk is betting on bio-methanol.
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![A car emerges from a Hertz garage]()
![A car emerges from a Hertz garage]()
Hertz just made the biggest electric vehicle purchase ever
Tesla will deliver 100,000 EVs to the rental car company by the end of 2022.
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![A man and child ride on a bike in Chicago.]()
![A man and child ride on a bike in Chicago.]()
In Chicago, cyclists in Black neighborhoods are over-policed and under-protected
A simple solution for transportation equity: bike lanes.
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‘Mobility Justice’: How cities are rethinking public transportation after COVID
During the pandemic, commuter trains ran nearly empty while buses shuttled essential workers. Now, cities are reevaluating where they spent their transit dollars.
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![A mobile phone with the Google Maps application]()
Google Maps now shows the lowest-carbon route for car journeys
Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, said the initiative could save 1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide a year.
