The Advocate - Going mobile: Getting around the state has environmental costs: "To find what may be the biggest cause of the country's dependence on foreign oil and the state's poor air quality, look no further than the tailpipe.
Sitting in traffic on Interstate 95 is no longer just a hassle for the motorist running late for work.
Idling engines produce emissions linked to global climate change and increasing numbers of childhood asthma cases. And people can practically feel the firing of every piston as the cost of fuel continues to rise while supplies shrink.
'It's the transportation sector that provides that lion's share of the greenhouse gases,' said Charles Rothenberger, a staff attorney for the Connecticut Fund for the Environment in New Haven. 'And it's increasing at an incredible rate.'..."
