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L.A. County receives a C from UCLA on energy and air quality in the 2017 Sustainable LA Environmental Report Card

The 2017 Energy and Air Quality report card examined 21 indicators in five categories to assess energy use, greenhouse gas emissions and air quality in Los Angeles County.
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The UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge released the 2017 Sustainable LA Environmental Report Card on Energy and Air Quality for Los Angeles County on April 27, 2017. After analyzing roughly a decade’s worth of key energy and environmental data, UCLA researchers gave a C grade for energy and air quality within Los Angeles County in the latest environmental report card. Read more →

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State and Trump are set to collide over electric cars and gas guzzlers

Downtown Los Angeles’ tallest buildings rise above a blanket of smog in October 1973.
(Fitzgerald Whitney / Los Angeles Times)

As Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency debates whether or not to loosen federal regulations on auto emissions, the State of California is taking steps to escalate its own targets. On Friday, March 24, state regulators voted to increase pollution-reduction requirements for automakers selling cars in the state and expand the Read more →

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Op-Ed: Could dynamic tolling be a solution to traffic congestion in Los Angeles?

Cameras and electronic sensors stand over the express lane south of the Slauson Avenue transit station on the 110 Freeway.
(Los Angeles Times)

In her op-ed, professor Herbie Huff of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, writes that the only effective way to decrease traffic congestion in Los Angeles is to introduce a dynamic tolling system. Dynamic tolling incorporates an automatic transponder that charges solo drivers while allowing carpools to drive for free with the price of the toll lanes varying based on the time of day and congestion. Similarly to how airline tickets increase in Read more →

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UCLA Law professor looks to L.A.’s past to inform rail transit’s future

Old Pacific Electric Railway cars await their conversion into scrap metal at a junkyard on Terminal Island in 1956. The collapse of the railway system that once crisscrossed Southern California was due to a number of factors, including the rise of the automobile.
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In a recent lecture at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, professor Ethan Elkind chronicled the history of public transit in L.A., beginning with the old Pacific Electric Railway system and concluding with the passing of Measure M, which promises to generate $30 billion for transit over the next 40 years. Elkind, who directs the Climate Change and Business program and is jointly Read more →

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Op-Ed: How do you ease traffic in LA? Make it harder to park

Traffic streams in to the parking lot of Dodger Stadium on Oct. 10.
(Los Angeles Times)

With the passing of Measure M in November 2016, voters agreed to help fund transportation expansion and improvement throughout Los Angeles. Juan Matute, associate director of the UCLA Lewis Center and Institute of Transportation Studies, and coauthors comment that reducing the amount of available parking is a key proponent that would help to fully realize Measure M’s promise to reduce traffic.

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