Accelerating the Transition to Electric Buses
Electric utilities have a lot to gain from the large-scale adoption of electric school buses, and could play a major role in supporting the transition. Electric buses can expand and stabilize the grid,...
View ArticleNew Report Proposes Roadmap For How To Transform Arizona’s Transportation...
As state and national policymakers seek solutions to improve infrastructure, the Arizona PIRG Education Fund and Frontier Group’s new report, Transform Transportation, provides a roadmap the...
View ArticleTransform Transportation
By rebuilding our transportation system to give more people the option to spend less time in a car, by expanding access to active means of travel such as walking and biking, and by adopting...
View ArticleCDC struggles with transportation policy in response to COVID-19
Diane BrownExecutive Director(602) 252-9227Contact person by emailRead more about Diane BrownMonday, June 8, 2020The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released new guidelines...
View ArticleU.S. Senate Bill Marks Progress on Clean Transportation and Electric...
The U.S. Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works unveiled a major transportation bill today, which includes a section on climate change that shifts some federal highway money to Complete...
View ArticlePhoenix voters clear the way for more light rail
Monday, September 9, 2019Faced with a choice over whether to keep light rail on track, Phoenix voters decided once again to give the transit option a green light.Transportation
View ArticleArizona takes step that could boost electric vehicle ownership, invests in...
Tuesday, August 6, 2019 Arizona is in the process of making it easier for you to go electric with your next car.
View ArticleU.S. Senate Bill Marks Progress on Clean Transportation and Electric...
The U.S. Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works unveiled a major transportation bill today, which includes a section on climate change that shifts some federal highway money to Complete...
View ArticleOur path to cleaner, more fuel-efficient cars is facing roadblocks
Tuesday, November 6, 2018Arizonans want cleaner cars and trucks that drive farther while burning less gas, but the Trump administration is throwing up roadblocks to progress.
View ArticleYahoo - Light Rail Moves Forward in Phoenix!
Diane BrownExecutive Director(602) 252-9227Contact person by emailRead more about Diane BrownWednesday, September 26, 2018Arizona PIRG has been a staunch supporter of improving and increasing light...
View ArticleArizona PIRG Education Fund Denounces Federal Proposal to Stall Clean Car...
According to the Arizona PIRG Education Fund, Americans stand to breathe more polluted air as a result of a rollback announced today by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National...
View ArticleHighway Boondoggles 4
America’s infrastructure is in rough shape. Many of our roads, bridges and transit systems are aging and in need of repair.Yet, year after year, state and local governments propose billions of dollars’...
View ArticleNew Report Identifies Nine Wasteful Highway Projects Across the Country
Highway projects are notorious for wasting taxpayer dollars. Now, a new report by the U.S. PIRG Education Fund and Frontier Group identifies nine wasteful highway expansion projects across the country,...
View ArticleStatement regarding Governor Ducey’s Plan for VW Settlement Funds
Diane BrownExecutive Director(602) 252-9227Contact person by emailRead more about Diane BrownFriday, June 8, 2018While we appreciate that Governor Ducey’s plan dedicates the majority of the VW...
View ArticleElectric Buses
Buses play a key role in in our nation’s transportation system, carrying millions of children daily to and from school and moving millions of Americans each day around our cities. Buses reduce the...
View ArticleAn Analysis of the Volkswagen Settlement
Volkswagen vehicles emitted pollutants by as much as 40 times the legal limit. Arizonans who thought they were driving cleaner cars were actually pouring huge amounts of pollution into our air every...
View ArticleA New Way Forward: Envisioning a Transportation System without Carbon Pollution
Diane BrownExecutive Director, Arizona PIRG(602) 252-9227Contact person by emailRead more about Diane BrownTuesday, May 24, 2016A new report from Frontier Group, A New Way Forward: Envisioning a...
View ArticlePulling a FAST one on our Transportation Future
Thursday, December 10, 2015For the first time in a decade, and after roughly three dozen short-term extensions, Congress has pulled together and passed a transportation funding law lasting longer than...
View ArticleReport Documents Continued Decline in Driving, Increase in Public Transit in...
Summer 2015 Update: Bikes, Trains and Less Driving, a report by the Arizona PIRG Education Fund and St. Luke’s Health Initiatives, found that between 2006-2013 Arizona saw an 11.8 percent decline in...
View ArticleWho Pays for Roads?
Many Americans believe that drivers pay the full cost of the roads they use through gas taxes and other user fees. That has never been true, and it is less true now than at any other point in modern...
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