Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Climate Change

The Connection That Can’t Be Ignored: Sandy and Climate Change

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 1, 2012

If there’s any good news to come out of the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, it’s that political leaders and the press are actually talking about climate change. At the end of a long campaign season with barely a mention of the issue, it’s a relief to hear some sane discussion of the issue based on […]

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Poll: Republicans Support Transpo Policies to Avert Climate Change, Too

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 16, 2011

Judging from the level of our national debate, you would guess we are a nation strongly divided on the issue of climate change. But you’d be wrong, according to a new poll from Yale University. A representative survey of 1,010 adults found that 71 percent think that global warming should be a “very high,” “high” […]

SFMTA’s Climate Action Strategy Will Require Broad Political Support

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 27, 2011 | 6 Comments

San Francisco could be headed on a course toward transportation sustainability, granted it’s the politically popular thing to do. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) recently released its 2011 Draft Climate Action Strategy [PDF], laying out a progressive blueprint for how the city should tackle reducing its greenhouse gas emissions from one of their […]

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Behind the Transport Industry’s Lament About the Senate Climate Bill

By Elana Schor | May 17, 2010

While transport reform advocates hailed last week’s long-awaited Senate climate bill for directing an estimated $6 billion-plus towards local land use planning and green infrastructure, state DOTs and construction interests criticized the legislation — suggesting that the measure’s sponsors could face stiff resistance from the transportation industry’s mainstream despite making concessions to win over all […]

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Move to Delay California’s Greenhouse Gas Law Gaining Steam

By Damien Newton | May 3, 2010

Republican Gubernatorial candidates are only debating how best to delay the implementation of A.B. 32 Proponents of clean energy and environmental laws designed to reduce greenhouse gases had best not take the challenge to California’s AB 32 too lightly. Backers of a ballot initiative that would "delay" implementation of the law until the state’s unemployment […]

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Kerry on Senate Climate Bill: Federal Gas Tax is Staying at 18.4 Cents

By Elana Schor | Apr 21, 2010

The several dozen transportation industry groups that raised questions about where the upcoming Senate climate change bill would send proceeds from its new "linked fee" on carbon fuels can stop worrying — because it looks like the legislation won’t contain any new tax on motor fuels. Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) (Photo: Getty) As Sen. John […]

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