
You may know about the flurry of action surrounding a new federal transportation bill that has consumed Washington over the last month. You may not know that this sudden urgency erupted 869 days after the current federal transportation bill officially expired.
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Please call or email your U.S. representative TODAY to oppose the federal transportation bill currently moving in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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POSTED 02.09.2012 by Ethan Fawley
BIG OIL, biking, Congress, federal government, federal policy, oil, oil drilling, take action, transit, transportation, transportation choices, transportation funding, U.S. House, walking

This month, Bike Walk Twin Cities and the collaborators of Bike Walk Week are hosting a celebration of walking through a social media campaign called the Winter Walkoff.
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If you own a Smartphone, you know that apps can be completely distracting. Within the last month, I’ve finally upgraded
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Fresh Energy applauds Minnesota Congressman Erik Paulsen for voting against the bad federal transportation bill as it moved through the House Ways and Means Committee this morning.
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POSTED 02.03.2012 by Ethan Fawley
biking, Congress, Erik Paulsen, federal government, federal policy, light rail, multi-modal transportation system, transportation, transportation choices, transportation funding, transportation planning, walking

It’s fitting that the cover of the “American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act” includes pictures of a congested freeway and an oil pipeline, because the bill’s intent seems pretty clear: retaining Americans’ dependence on cars and preserving huge giveaways to the oil industry.
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POSTED 02.02.2012 by Ethan Fawley
biking, Congress, federal government, federal policy, high-speed rail, Keystone XL, multi-modal transportation system, offshore drilling, oil drilling, rail, TIGER, transportation funding, transportation planning, walking

While we’re still getting the hang of electric vehicles in the United States, in Europe, they’re already folding them up.
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Coming off a year that saw record-breaking gasoline prices, analysts are predicting that some regional gas prices may flirt with the $4 or $5 mark as early as this summer.
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Minnesota’s Southwest Light Rail Transit line—planned to connect downtown Minneapolis with Eden Prairie and expected to carry 30,000 riders a day by 2030—just got an important $775 million boost from Governor Mark Dayton’s proposed bonding bill.
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How do you reduce your crippling dependence on a powerful, long-entrenched monopoly energy supplier? That’s the question the U.S. auto industry found itself facing in 2008, when the price of gasoline topped $4 a gallon.
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POSTED 01.16.2012 by Ross Abbey
cars, Chevy Volt, clean energy, driving, electric cars, electric vehicles, Ford Transit Connect, hybrids, innovation, Nissan LEAF, plug-in vehicles, policy, policy implementation, renewable energy, technology, Tesla