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Transportation & Land Use

Eight hundred sixty-nine days and counting: Federal transportation bill still in limbo

expect delays road sign

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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Transportation & Land Use

Representative Erik Paulsen votes to protect federal transit funds as bad bill moves forward

Erik Paulsen and family

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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Transportation & Land Use

Bad new federal transportation bill benefits Big Oil, cuts biking, walking, and transit

traffic jam

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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Transportation & Land Use

Energy 101: Electric vehicles

steering wheel

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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