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New York has lost a giant: A fighter against pollution, for justice and for congestion pricing.

In an op/ed piece in Monday's Daily News, Brooklyn-based transportation consultant Brian Ketcham proposed some changes to Mayor Bloomberg's congestion pricing plan. Ketcham, who has been pushing for some form of congestion pricing since his time working for the Lindsay Administration more than 30 years ago, argues that New York City should:

The late Ivan Illich would have sought to limit them — among other things, says our columnist.

We were a solid hundred at 60th Street and Lexington Avenue early this morning, greeting the turn of Saturday into Sunday to count down the start, finally, of congestion pricing in New York City. Ketcham was there. So were Naparstek, Orcutt, Sproule Love and Jacob W, among a dozen or two people I knew well enough to embrace. (More about them later.)

U.S. electric vehicles are only slightly less harmful to the environment and society than conventional gasoline cars, according to a new analysis.

Thousands of marchers descended on Manhattan on Sunday with a simple message: End fossil fuel. Plus other news.

Mayor de Blasio canceled his annual holiday reception for the media (a good move), plus all the other news from over the weekend. (Photo, left, is from the 2019 party.)

The Green New Deal is clearly better than our carbon-based catastrophic course. But it also depends on massive amounts of lithium — and extracting it will carry a big environmental cost of its own.

The distance we've come since the photo above is impressive, and we can credit Earth Day activism and government regulation.

What a bizarre weekend — and when we say bizarre, we're obviously talking about the mayor. Plus all the other news.