Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Monday’s Headlines: How to Blow Up a Pipeline Edition

By Streetsblog | Oct 4, 2021 | No Comments

A letter to the editor in the Daily News prompts some serious talk about the future of civilization. Plus all the other news from a busy weekend.

The portal to the future Gateway tunnel being constructed at Hudson Yards in the west 30s in 2014. Photo: MTA/Patrick Cashin

OPINION: Biden Should Link Gateway Program and Climate Goals

By Bob Previdi, Mysore Nagaraja and Howard Sackel | Sep 10, 2021 | No Comments

The $30-billion Northeast Corridor investment could force the integration of regional rail — and lead to much less driving and flying.

Holland Tunnel traffic inbound from New Jersey. Tolling of the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels would divert east-west auto and truck trips to the Cross-Bronx Expressway and other highways north of mid-Manhattan. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

OPINION: The Port Authority’s Car Dependence Is Killing Our Climate-Change Goals

By Bob Previdi | Jul 29, 2021 | No Comments

If the New York metro area is to decarbonize, the bi-state agency should lead the effort. But can it wean itself off tolls and parking fees?

A car from the now sadly defunct Car2Go, which sold point-to-point car-share by the minute. An expansion of car share could reduce the number of vehicles on our streets. Photo: Elliott Brown/Flick

OPINION: To Ban Cars, Socialize Them

By Nicole A. Murray | Jul 20, 2021 | No Comments

The city could repurpose its huge fleet into a car-share one, starting with the NYPD's huge cache of vehicles.

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Multi-State Climate Plan Fails To Please All Advocates

By Ethan Goffman | Jul 6, 2021 | No Comments

The latest version of a multistate plan to lower transportation emissions represents an improvement, but still doesn't go far enough on environmental-justice issues, some advocates say.