KOMANOFF: The Weight of Gasoline
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The Democrats are getting creamed over the price of gasoline — and it’s not really fair (though it sort of is, too).
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Environmental Justice
Harlem Environmental Justice Group Blasts Developer for Truck Depot
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Members of the Harlem community are decrying a developer's plan to build a controversial truck depot, warning that the decision to put profit over people’s health will send more pollution-spewing big rigs into the low-income community of color and worsen the environmental injustice already borne by the neighborhood.
The Brake: Would a Car-Light City Really Be ‘Quiet’?
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This week on our podcast, we talk with noise researcher Dr. Erica Walker, who says we're missing a critical conversation about how unique communities experience their local soundscapes, both in the streets and beyond.
Environmental Justice Advocates Seek to Regulate ‘Last-Mile’ Trucking Facilities
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The city's outdated zoning code must be amended to give regulators the teeth they need to rein in “last-mile” distribution facilities that are popping up in low-income communities of color, environmental justice groups said as they filed a zoning proposal.
City Official Under Fire for Questioning the Benefits and Equity of Transit
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We always assume more transit means more equity. But a progressive planning commissioner apparently disagrees, sparking quite a conversation.
MTA To Add 60 Electric Buses by Year’s End (That’s 1% of the Entire Fleet)
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In the latest advance of a slow rollout, the new vehicles will be deployed to communities with high asthma rates.