{"id":394761951,"date":"2017-07-06T00:05:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T00:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=394761951"},"modified":"2017-07-06T00:05:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T00:05:51","slug":"to-fight-climate-change-cities-need-to-battle-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=394761951","title":{"rendered":"To Fight Climate Change, Cities Need to Battle Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By HENRY GRABAR, City Lab<br \/>\nOn June 1, the U.S. Climate Mayors\u2014a network of more than 300 city leaders, including the mayors of the country\u2019s five largest cities\u2014published a commitment to \u201cadopt, honor, and uphold the commitments to the goals enshrined in the Paris Agreement.\u201d The cities would carry out the promises Donald Trump had abandoned.<br \/>\nI have bad news for this feel-good caucus. Want to fight climate change? You have to fight cars. In the nation\u2019s largest cities, cars account for about a third of greenhouse gas emissions. Nationally, transportation is now the single largest contributor to carbon emissions.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.citylab.com\/equity\/2017\/06\/to-fight-climate-change-cities-need-to-battle-cars\/530721\/?utm_source=SFTwitter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By HENRY GRABAR, City Lab On June 1, the U.S. Climate Mayors\u2014a network of more than 300 city leaders, including the mayors of the country\u2019s five largest cities\u2014published a commitment to \u201cadopt, honor, and uphold the commitments to the goals enshrined in the Paris Agreement.\u201d The cities would carry out the promises Donald Trump had &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=394761951\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;To Fight Climate Change, Cities Need to Battle Cars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394761951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394761951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394761951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394761951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394761951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394761951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394761951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}