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California Is Investigating Racial Discrimination in Auto Insurance Premiums

The state's insurance department is following up on our findings that eight auto insurers charge more in minority neighborhoods than in other neighborhoods with similar risk.

Julia Angwin

Economics

Cash for Clunkers Was a Clunker

In a discouraging post mortem, it turns out neither the U.S. economy nor the environment really benefited from the 2009 “cash for clunkers” car-trading scheme.

Emily Badger

Environment

Vehicle-to-Grid: A New Spin on Car Payments

Buried in the high hopes for electric cars is the very real possibility that they can make money by powering and regulating the grid.

Dan Ferber

Environment

Can China Avoid Getting Stuck in Traffic?

Amid a frenzy of car buying, the Chinese are losing the race for traffic space, but it's not too late for them to take another road.

Melinda Burns

Economics

Cash for Clunkers, Visualized

Graph shows that the U.S. government's effort to shift car buyers to higher-efficiency vehicles was anything but a "Buy American" campaign.

David Sparks

Social Justice

Making the Case for Carpool Lanes

Research indicates that even underused carpool lanes have a smoothing effect on freeway traffic.

Elisabeth Best

Economics

Government Rebates – The Uneasy Case For Subsidizing Energy Efficiency

Rebates for energy-efficient appliances don't stand up to the economic analysis that, until now, no one bothered to do.

Elisabeth Best

Economics

Gentlemen, Start Your Clunkers

A stimulus package launches with low hopes for qualitatively changing the pace of car buying and little real expectation of cleaning up the air.

Michael Todd