Climate Transportation
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![Boston's Red Line]()
![Boston's Red Line]()
Boston’s new mayor promised free public transit. Can she make it happen?
Without state and federal buy-in, experts say fare-free transit is just "talking about dreams."
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![Collage: Detroit skyline, a record, historic photos of Detroit and a Black owned record shop, Interstate 375]()
![Collage: Detroit skyline, a record, historic photos of Detroit and a Black owned record shop, Interstate 375]()
A freeway ripped the heart out of Black life in Detroit. Now Michigan wants to tear it down.
Highway removal is the easy part. Making reparations is where it gets complicated.
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![a paper airplane with its nose in the sand]()
![a paper airplane with its nose in the sand]()
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.]()
![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.
