Cheated by Car Dependence: Drivers and Nondrivers in the United States
Car dependence is a burden for people across the US, draining household budgets and leaving drivers feeling trapped.
Car dependence is a burden for people across the US, draining household budgets and leaving drivers feeling trapped.
In the face of energy transition projects, communities can deploy community benefits agreements to exert control over their futures. When communities get organized early, know their rights and opportunities, and work in coalition, they have the …
Fast and free buses can lower costs for working people, and get them where they need to go more quickly and comfortably, while investing in high-quality public goods, cutting carbon pollution, and improving air quality.
The transition to zero carbon transportation has initiated major social and economic shifts: a boom in new mine development to supply transition minerals needed to manufacture …
Workers and organizers, representing different parts of the transportation supply chain, journey across Nevada to learn first-hand about the impacts of lithium mining for electric vehicle …
Transportation policy represents a key tool to address both the cost of living and climate crises. In the United States, the shortcomings of today’s transportation system …
The urgency of eliminating emissions from the transportation sector–the number one source of U.S. carbon emissions–intensifies with every day of inaction. Some climate advocates believe that …
The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act dedicated $643 billion to surface transportation over a five year period. Roughly two thirds of that investment goes to …
The structure of the railroad industry in the United States constitutes a massive and ongoing missed opportunity. Freight service is in decline, and passenger service lags …
The polycrisis is wreaking economic insecurity, mass death and genocide, climate disasters, and other kinds of instability on working people worldwide. Progressives must put forward policies …