Today’s Headlines
Bush Calls for U.S. Carbon Emissions to Plateau by 2025 (Dot Earth) Bay Area Businesses May Soon Pay Fee for Producing Greenhouse Gases (NYT) Bronx Toddler Hit by Car; Cyclist Killed by Delivery Truck in Manhattan (Post) More Delays and Overruns for PA’s Lower Manhattan Terminal (News, NY1) Sander Discusses MTA Sustainability Plan (NPR) NYCT … Continued
By
Ben Fried
8:59 AM EDT on April 17, 2008
- Bush Calls for U.S. Carbon Emissions to Plateau by 2025 (Dot Earth)
- Bay Area Businesses May Soon Pay Fee for Producing Greenhouse Gases (NYT)
- Bronx Toddler Hit by Car; Cyclist Killed by Delivery Truck in Manhattan (Post)
- More Delays and Overruns for PA’s Lower Manhattan Terminal (News, NY1)
- Sander Discusses MTA Sustainability Plan (NPR)
- NYCT Takes Low-Floor Bus Model for a Spin (City Room)
- Red Hook Bike Commuting Plan Gets Hearing at CB6 Tonight (Post)
- Gov Island Advocates Try to Improve Access, Build a Constituency (City Room)
- Silver Won’t Release Tax Returns, But His Opponents Have (Daily Politics)
- Car Talk Bros. to Ponder ‘Car of the Future’ on TV (Wheels)
Ben Fried started as a Streetsblog reporter in 2008 and led the site as editor-in-chief from 2010 to 2018. He lives in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, with his wife.
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