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Brian Ketcham, Automotive Engineer Who Subverted Car Culture, 85

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

August 22, 2024

Komanoff: William (Vickrey), It Was Really Nothing

Former City Council Member Kathryn Freed once said "traffic is killing us in Lower Manhattan." Now, she sues to stop Nobel-Prize-winning economist William Vickrey's congestion pricing idea.

May 20, 2024

‘Electric’ Slide: Four Companies Seek Exemptions from 1972 Anti-Idling Law

The Department of Environmental Protection has shown a willingness to waive New York City's 52-year-old anti-idling law for companies with plans to electrify their fleets.

May 13, 2024

City: BQE Must Be Rebuilt to Last a Century … To Prevent More Pollution

Paging Mr. Orwell: Doubling down on the Robert Moses highway is actually good for neighborhoods nearby, the city claims.

March 21, 2024

‘Department of Enabling Polluters’: Clean Air Activists Slam Weakening of Idling Rule

"It's like a no-peeing section in a pool," one parent said.

March 8, 2024

KOMANOFF: Mayor Adams Touts a Clean-Air Win that Hasn’t Happened

Here's what the TLC ― and the mayor ― overlooked when they decided to let thousands more Ubers and Lyfts onto our teeming, weary streets.

March 7, 2024

Opinion: The Bronx Had Air Quality Issues Long Before Congestion Pricing

The MTA forecasts additional trucks traffic on the Cross Bronx Expressway — but the solutions to the Bronx's air quality challenges lie elsewhere.

March 5, 2024

‘A Joke’: New City Rules Would Give More Idlers A Free Pass

And it's not the first time the agency, which has "environmental protection" in its name, has added obstacles to reining in polluters.

February 7, 2024

Komanoff: Get the Facts About ‘Car Bloat’ and Pollution

To deal effectively with climate we need to be clear about what’s destroying it. 

February 1, 2024

Poorer Brooklynites Bear the Brunt of Online Delivery Boom: Report

More than 9,000 trucks come and go from last-mile warehouses in Sunset Park and Red Hook every single day — compared to just 100 on the Upper East Side.

January 23, 2024