A threat to federal climate investment: Highway boondoggles
Too many states are using federal infrastructure funding to double down on wasteful, harmful highway construction and expansion.
Too many states are using federal infrastructure funding to double down on wasteful, harmful highway construction and expansion.
The United States is in need of an infrastructure overhaul.
We’re monitoring federal action and reporting back on whether our elected officials are acting for or against the public interest.
America’s current transportation system has been designed, built and centered around the automobile, and it is a public health disaster. U.S. PIRG Education Fund and Frontier Group’s latest report, Transform Transportation, identifies the numerous harmful health impacts caused by America’s car-centric transportation system and provides a three-step roadmap toward a healthier, more sustainable approach to transportation infrastructure.
As major American cities look for ways to lower carbon emissions, they’re looking to low-tech, low-cost bus lanes to help them. Here’s the case for why more cities should get on board.
How is the Northeast taking on the largest source of planet-warming, climate-changing pollution?