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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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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.
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Cargo-ship congestion is bringing more dirty air to Southern California
Those supply-chain problems you’ve heard about? They have consequences for public health.
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One tiny chip is choking up America’s largest automotive factories
What it means for the transition to electric vehicles.
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The evidence that the world has passed ‘peak car’
A look at how transportation could change without an addiction to automobiles.
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‘Big Three’ automakers join Biden in electric car promises
Ford, GM, and Stellantis have vowed that up to 50% of their car sales will be electric by 2030.
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What’s the true cost of shipping all your junk across the ocean?
Walmart and other retail giants import millions of goods on polluting cargo ships.
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Renting clothes is ‘less green than throwing them away’
Transportation and dry cleaning make it the worst green option for consumers of fashion, study finds.
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Car culture disproportionately kills Black Americans. The pandemic made things worse.
The number of Black people who died in traffic collisions rose by nearly a quarter last year.
