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Transportation & Mining
Transportation is one of the biggest contributors to carbon emissions in the US. We take a full supply chain approach to our transportation work– from extraction of materials to build infrastructure and components, to vehicle manufacturing and infrastructure construction to end users and community transport needs.
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Achieving Zero Emissions with More Mobility and Less Mining
Transportation is the number one source of carbon emissions in the United States– making the sector crucial to decarbonize quickly to limit the climate crisis. States …
Transportation & Mining
How are transportation dollars flowing in your state?
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 …
Transportation & Mining
From Margins to Growth
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 …
Transportation & Mining
Seize the Future
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 …
Global Systems & Policy
Bringing The Jobs on Board
Transit plays a central role in providing access to schools, jobs, medical care, parks, grocery stores and other everyday necessities. For decades, the United States has …
Transportation & Mining
Transportation: A blindspot in US climate policy
Major climate policies are finally being passed in the United States, and emissions are beginning to decline in some economic sectors. But progress in some areas …
Transportation & Mining
The Potential of Trolleybuses
Transforming transportation will be a critically important part of the decarbonization effort in the United States where the transport of people and goods produce more of …
Transportation & Mining
The Effects of Lithium Mining
Although lithium is geologically abundant, the vast majority of lithium extraction is concentrated in Australia, Chile, Argentina, and China. At the same time, the lithium extraction …
Transportation & Mining
Biden’s Defense Production Act Order and Four Key Ways to Ensure Supply Chain Justice
On March 31, the Biden Administration invoked a 1950 law called the Defense Production Act (DPA) to ramp up domestic mining for “clean energy technologies,” particularly …
Transportation & Mining
