Transportation Resources

The UCS Vanguard, updated from the original 2007 design, details vehicle technology features that can save consumers money while reducing global warming emissions.

Factsheet outlining the benefits of a well-designed Low Carbon Fuel Standard to reduce emissions from the transportation sector.

The Union of Concerned Scientists presents the first comprehensive analysis—peer-reviewed by experts—of the highest-carbon and lowest-carbon options for vacation travel.

Improving truck efficiency is not only good for the bottom line but also can help California meet its global warming, air quality, and petroleum dependence goals.

Analysis to consider the impacts that the use of agricultural, forest, rain forest, and other lands for the development of bio-based transportation fuels may have on their lifecycle global warming carbon dioxide footprint.

The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) included in the 2007 energy bill is a key first step toward reducing global warming pollution from our nation’s transportation fuels.

Concerns about the use of food crops to make biofuels have been growing due to a sharp increase in both food and fuel prices, along with studies suggesting that production of these fuels may increase global warming pollution.

Fact sheet describing some of the technologies available today that can be installed on trucks, or specified as options on new trucks, to improve fuel efficiency through better aerodynamics and reduced rolling resistance.

A report examining the importance of a comprehensive accounting system to measure global warming emissions over a transportation fuel’s entire life cycle.

How ExxonMobil used tobacco industry tactics to spread disinformation on global warming science and create confusion.