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Pitching Diesels As An Eco-Friendly Option [1]

If you’re thinking about buying a cleaner, more fuel-efficient car, you might think a hybrid is your best option. But some automakers want people to look at an older technology when they’re looking for green cars: the diesel engine. The Environment Report's Julie Grant reports.
Transportation [2]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Source: Pitching Diesels As An Eco-Friendly Option [5], 06/16/2009

"Spain’s High-Speed Rail Offers Guideposts for U.S." [6]

The high-speed rail system in Spain is a huge success, and offers some lessons for Obama administration officials seeking to develop something similar in the U.S.
Transportation [2]
Public [3]
International [7]
Source: NYTimes [8], 06/02/2009

Terror Hits Tourism Industry--Eco-And Other [9]

While the tourism industry has grown exponentially in recent years, it plummeted in the wake of Sept. 11 -- evidence of tourism's vulnerability.
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TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat: 
Transportation [2]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [4]
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Public [3]

Bike Sharing Programs Widespread [11]

Bike sharing programs are becoming an increasingly popular way to provide affordable transportation that requires less energy, while boosting various sectors of the economy.
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TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat: 
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Transportation [2]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [4]
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Public [3]

Top 10 Endangered Southern Areas [14]

The Southern Environmental Law Center's top 10 places in America's South that face "immediate, potentially irreparable threats in 2009" represent a cross-section of the major environmental issues facing these states.
SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat: 
Planning & Growth [15]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Forests [16]
Natural Resources [17]
Transportation [2]
Water & Oceans [18]
Biodiversity [19]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [4]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [20]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [21]
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Public [3]

Reporter's Toolbox: Might the Suburbs in your Area Become the Next Slums? [22]

Are Peak Oil, the subprime mortgage mess and generational shifts ending Americans' love affair with the suburbs? That's what some high-profile urban planning types are postulating.
Topics on the Beat: 
Economy & Business [12]
Planning & Growth [15]
Transportation [2]
People & Population [23]
Visibility: 
Public [3]

Due Out Soon: TTI Mobility Study [24]

If you cover transportation or urban sprawl, keep an eye out for this year's Texas Transportation Institute mobility study.
SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat: 
Planning & Growth [15]
Transportation [2]
People & Population [23]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility: 
Public [3]

Plug-In Hybrids: Technology Rolls Closer to Reality [25]

In alternative-fuel transport circles, the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) is the current Holy Grail.
SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat: 
Energy & Fuel [13]
Transportation [2]
Technology [26]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [4]
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Public [3]

Feds to Report on Climate Change-Transportation Connection [27]

New report examines links between climate change and U.S. transportation.
SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [28]
Air [29]
Planning & Growth [15]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Pollution [30]
Transportation [2]
Policy [31]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [4]
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Public [3]

Air Pollution From Ships: New Laws, New Science [32]

Ocean-going ships are a major unregulated air pollution source.

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TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat: 
Air [29]
Pollution [30]
Transportation [2]
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International [7]
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