We continue our series on the Transportation for America Blueprint this week with a look at the second of six core objectives we believe Congress must embrace in the next transportation bill — environmental protection, climate stability, and environmental justice. Our country needs a transportation system that keeps our air clean, helps us fight climate change, and protects all Americans — no matter who they are or where they live — from dangerous environmental pollution.

The proliferation of heavily-trafficked highways that cut through tracts of wilderness across the United States has created huge problems for migratory wildlife. (New York Times – Jim Robbins)

With California on the verge of approving landmark legislation to curb greenhouse gas emissions and sprawl with more compact development, the Los Angeles Times urges Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to pick up his pen and make it official.