U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions will be 7 percent lower than their 2005 level of nearly 6 billion metric tons in 2020 as coal’s share of electricity production continues a steady descent over the next two decades, according... 

by Jess Zimmerman. The EPA has organized its data on major greenhouse gas emitters into a handy interactive map . You can zoom in on your area to see where the emissions come from near you, or scan around for the worst offenders.  Read More →

by Jess Zimmerman. D.C. is having its annual No Pants Metro Ride this Sunday, to raise awareness of … public transit? Indecency laws? People's bottoms? (Actually, according to the Facebook page , they're just trying... 

by Greg Hanscom. If you had $7 million to use on behalf of the residents of your poorest slums, how would you distribute it? For Medellin, Colombia, that’s a no-brainer: Blow the whole wad on a MONSTER ESCALATOR . Wait, wait!... 

by Christopher Mims. Over at some raggedy-rag called Slate, energy futurist Chris Nelder takes a deep dive into the available data on how much natural gas we can get out of the rocks beneath the U.S. via fracking. His conclusion is... 

by Sarah Laskow. In Seattle, a semi truck hit a jogger, nearly killing him. While the jogger lay almost dying, the police officers who responded to the accident were busy sneering at his decision not to drive a car. This being 2011,... 

by Christopher Mims. (click to embiggen) Air quality, obesity, commute times, strained family budgets, unnecessary deaths, runaway health care expenses — is there anything that a mass shift to bicycles transportation wouldn't... 

by Sarah Laskow. Brazil discovers that oil drilling is not good for the environment. Also, Congress is kicking renewable energy to the curb the way a mean person would a really cute puppy. Like these . Oh, wait, don't buy those,... 

by Jess Zimmerman. Despite the best efforts of bike lane opponents and overprivileged New Yorker columnists , bike commuters in the Big Apple have increased by 102 percent since 2007, according to new figures from the New York Department... 

by Jess Zimmerman. Janette Sadik-Khan, DOT commissioner of New York City seems to think the main challenge to street safety is not enough short poems. Thus, her new campaign : Making bikers and walkers safer through haiku. Not good... 

by Christopher Mims. Here's a sweet 30-second plea for the improvement of the public transportation used by 35 million Americans every day. Because there should be many tens or hundreds of millions more of them, but at the rate... 

by Christopher Mims. Homes and strip malls in America's outer-ring suburbs, which contained most of the country's most expensive homes in the 1990s, are now worth less than what it cost to build them. And the land beneath... 

by Sarah Laskow. California is going to have high-speed rail. Despite grumblings about the cost, Gov. Jerry Brown supports it , and now the project, which will link San Francisco and Los Angeles, is getting close to $1 billion from... 

The Obama administration proposed on Wednesday doubling auto fuel efficiency to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, a White House energy priority that has come under scrutiny in Congress. The plan grew out of an uneasy agreement between... 

by Jess Zimmerman. I get the sense that everyone who can cook (i.e. pretty much everyone who isn't me) is going the foodie route with Thanksgiving these days, all free-range individual Cornish hens and Brussels sprout slaw. But... 

by Jess Zimmerman. Why do we have to pour so much of our transportation money into highway infrastructure? Well, because 50 years ago, the U.S. decided to structure roads in a way that was cheap to build but expensive and difficult... 

by Jess Zimmerman. Why do we have to pour so much of our transportation money into highway infrastructure? Well, because 50 years ago, the U.S. decided to structure roads in a way that was cheap to build but expensive and difficult... 

by Jess Zimmerman. Why do we have to pour so much of our transportation money into highway infrastructure? Well, because 50 years ago, the U.S. decided to structure roads in a way that was cheap to build but expensive and difficult... 

by Jess Zimmerman. Why do we have to pour so much of our transportation money into highway infrastructure? Well, because 50 years ago, the U.S. decided to structure roads in a way that was cheap to build but expensive and difficult... 

by Christopher Mims. America has a huge transportation infrastructure deficit, which means lots of our highways are due to be rebuilt. But according to Next American City editor at large Diana Lind, we'd be better off simply knocking...