Opinion/Blogs

California needs to step up on clean trucks to counter federal rollbacks

February 19, 2026

SacBee Opinion pageITS Berkeley affiliate Ethan Elkind, director of the Climate Program, and Marie Grimm, environmental policy research fellow. at UC Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment write an opinion piece for the Sacramento Bee, California needs to step up on clean trucks to counter...

Sustainable mining reform must be everything, everywhere, all at once

May 25, 2023

The Hill webpage, photo shows trees in a swampThe Hill published ITS affiliate Ethan Elkind's, Director of the Climate Program at the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment (CLEE), op-Ed on the need for global mining reform on EV batteries and more: ...

In Transit: Self-Driving Taxis and Trucks Take the Wheel

May 24, 2023

Inside view of autonomous carITS affiliate Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment (CLEE) talks to KQED Forum on autonomous vehicles: https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101892654/...

Opinion: L.A.’s half-empty, crime-ridden Metro trains don’t have to stay that way

May 22, 2023

Woman with a mask on an LA metro trainLA Times published an op-ed from ITS affiliate Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment (CLEE) on how to revive LA Metro Rail: https://www.latimes....

In Transit: California Looks to Green Its Trucking Industry

May 16, 2023

Trucks lined up on a road in smogITS affiliate Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment (CLEE), talked to KQED Forum in February on clean trucks: https://www.kqed.org/forum/...

Moran to Testify at SF City Hall Hearing

October 4, 2022

mapOn October 17th, City and Regional Planning doctoral student Marcel Moran will be testifying at a San Francisco City Hall hearing on the SFMTA bus network. He will be discussing his paper "Are shelters in place? Mapping the distribution of transit amenities via...