{"id":17386,"date":"2010-12-17T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecolocalizer.com\/?p=17386"},"modified":"2010-12-17T11:00:53","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T16:00:53","slug":"ecolocalizer-link-drop-americas-best-worst-commutes-kansas-getting-new-coal-plant-how-to-win-the-race-for-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/ecolocalizer-link-drop-americas-best-worst-commutes-kansas-getting-new-coal-plant-how-to-win-the-race-for-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecolocalizer Link Drop: America’s Best & Worst Commutes, Kansas Getting New Coal Plant, How to Win the Race for Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Weekly news roundup from other sites.<\/h3>\n

TheStreet and Bundle Special Report: America’s Best and Worst Commutes<\/a><\/h3>\n

Whether you live in a city, the suburbs or farm country, commuting by car to and from work can be an unavoidable expense.<\/p>\n

Beyond the obvious cost of gas, there are other ways a commute lightens your wallet \u2014 wear and tear on your car, repairs and the value of your time as you are stuck behind the wheel in traffic.<\/p>\n

An analysis of commuting costs and trends by\u00a0TheStreet<\/em><\/a> and Bundle set out to determine not only what people throughout the U.S. spend each year for transportation, but what cities are the worst off in terms of expenses. A ranking of how 90 U.S. cities fared can be found on the\u00a0last page of this story<\/a>….<\/p>\n

Who Wants to Turn Brooklyn into a Big Parking Lot?<\/a><\/h3>\n

What is one of the absolute worst uses of land, environmentally speaking? A surface parking lot. In other words, the type of parking lot you see in front of Wal-Mart\u2014one level, not above or below any buildings. (They’re also just plain ugly…can you think of anything uglier than a large, surface parking lot?)<\/p>\n

Where is the worst place to build a surface parking lot? How about in the middle of the downtown areas of one of the most densely populated counties in this nation….<\/p>\n

Granholm: How to Win the Race for Jobs<\/a><\/h3>\n

In just over a year, we have attracted 18 domestic and international companies, which are projected to create 63,000 private-sector jobs in Michigan. With breathtaking speed, we built an entire advanced-battery \u201cecosystem\u201d for the purpose of electrifying the automobile<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

If the states are the laboratories of democracy, Washington can take a lesson from what is happening in Michigan.<\/p>\n

Kansas Issues Permit for New, Massive Sunflower Coal Plant While Other States Begin Retiring Existing Coal Plants<\/a><\/h3>\n

Today, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) issued a permit for the highly controversial coal plant Sunflower Electric seeks to construct near Holcomb. The coal plant has been the subject of a multi-year controversy after being denied a permit in the fall of 2007.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s action and the controversy it has generated is expected to provoke a review by the federal government. A top Environmental Protection Agency official wrote in\u00a0an open letter<\/a> on November 27….<\/p>\n

100 Rally to Protest Walker’s Rejection of Rail Money<\/a><\/h3>\n

More than 100 people joined Monday in a protest against Governor-elect Scott Walker’s rejection of a federally financed high-speed rail line.<\/p>\n

Based on Walker’s stand, the U.S. Department of Transportation last week\u00a0withdrew an $810 million grant <\/a>that would have paid for the 110-mph line\u00a0connecting Milwaukee and Madison<\/a>. The next day, Spanish-owned Talgo Inc.\u00a0announced it would shut down <\/a>its Milwaukee train manufacturing operations in 2012, leaving only a maintenance base for the two trains it is building for Amtrak’s existing Milwaukee-to-Chicago Hiawatha line….<\/p>\n

Photo Credit: th.omas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weekly news roundup from other sites. TheStreet and Bundle Special Report: America’s Best and Worst Commutes Whether you live in a city, the suburbs or farm country, commuting by car to and from work can be an unavoidable expense. Beyond the obvious cost of gas, there are other ways a commute lightens your wallet \u2014 …<\/p>\n

Ecolocalizer Link Drop: America’s Best & Worst Commutes, Kansas Getting New Coal Plant, How to Win the Race for Jobs<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[626,627,628,629,630,361,631,632,633,487,634,635,636,637,638,197,65,639],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Zach","author_link":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/author\/zshahan\/"},"uagb_comment_info":1,"uagb_excerpt":"Weekly news roundup from other sites. TheStreet and Bundle Special Report: America’s Best and Worst Commutes Whether you live in a city, the suburbs or farm country, commuting by car to and from work can be an unavoidable expense. Beyond the obvious cost of gas, there are other ways a commute lightens your wallet \u2014…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}