Environment Archives - Center for Economic and Policy Research

Op-Ed/Commentary

EnvironmentInequalityUS Earth Day is a Time to Consider Better Responses to High Gas Prices: Free Public Transit and Other Ideas

We should be looking for strategies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions along with the pain of gas prices.

Algernon Austin / April 22, 2022

Op-Ed/Commentary

EnvironmentUS Antienvironmentalists in Never-Never Land: The Lake Powell Pipeline

We will have problems maintaining energy production from the dam even without the LPP. If we were to build the LPP, we would very quickly need another energy source for 5 million people in the area.

Dean Baker / April 04, 2022

Op-Ed/Commentary

EnvironmentUS The Historic Opportunities for Racial Equity in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act

The IIJA has provided a historic opportunity for advancing racial equity in infrastructure investments. Only if state and local activists force their elected officials to take advantage of it will its full potential be realized.

Anaïs Goubert Algernon Austin / February 02, 2022

Op-Ed/Commentary

EnvironmentHealth and Social ProgramsUS Disaster Victims Shouldn’t Have to Run a PR Campaign to Get Federal Aid

All victims of natural disasters should be able to imagine building back better.

Matt Sedlar / THE LOS ANGELES TIMES / January 03, 2022