March 28, 2023 Utility Dive: If all Americans can participate, we can achieve the speed and scale required to decarbonize electricity and transportation and save the planet. By Audrey Zibelman and Victoria Harmon https://www.utilitydive.com/news/avoiding-a-clean-power-divide-creating-national-electrification-co-ops/646154/ Audrey Zibelman is the former CEO of AEMO, the national grid operator of Australia, and former chairwoman of the New York Public Service Commission. Victoria Harmon is principal of VL …
Many people don’t have enough income to afford even the cheapest new housing
Marketwatch: Why building more homes can’t solve the housing affordability problem for the millions who need it most, by Alex Schwartz and Kirk McClure Last Updated: Nov. 17, 2021 Even before 2020, the U.S. faced an acute housing affordability crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic made it a whole lot worse after millions of people who lost their jobs fell behind on rent. While eviction bans …
Minimizing further highway expansion is the most important lever to avoid putting upward pressure on transportation emissions: these projects eventually result in more driving, more traffic, and more pollution than before the new lanes were added
March 24, 2023 Carbon pollution from on-road transportation in 12 U.S. states could be up to 2 percent higher – or 3 percent lower – in 2032, compared to business as usual, depending on how the transportation dollars in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) are spent, according to a new joint analysis released today by Georgetown Climate Center (GCC) and RMI. Building on a groundbreaking national study GCC …