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![The outside of a white warehouse building with trucks bearing Amazon Prime's branding and logo lined to load from it]()
![The outside of a white warehouse building with trucks bearing Amazon Prime's branding and logo lined to load from it]()
Deal of the day: New study links online shopping to air pollution
Nitrogen dioxide levels near e-commerce warehouses are 20 percent higher than in other neighborhoods. It can even be measured from space.
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The $1.7 billion bet on American-made EVs, explained by the Secretary of Energy
Jennifer Granholm tells Grist why the Biden administration is paying to convert auto plants into ones that can churn out EVs.
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Taking a train during a heat wave? Watch out for ‘sun kinks.’
As tracks heat up, they expand and buckle. That's forcing rail operators to adapt as the climate warms.
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A group of young people just forced Hawaiʻi to take major climate action
The historic agreement comes two years after 13 youth plaintiffs sued the state Department of Transportation.
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![Railroad cars on fire and derailed off track, flung to the sides of the tracks with a ball of fire and lots of dark smoke.]()
![Railroad cars on fire and derailed off track, flung to the sides of the tracks with a ball of fire and lots of dark smoke.]()
Pollution from Ohio train derailment reached 110 million Americans
A new study found traces of hazardous chemicals from the East Palestine disaster in 16 U.S. states.
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![Cars get stuck in a traffic jam on a Brooklyn highway as they head toward Manhattan. New York's governor Kathy Hochul scrapped a program to charge drivers a fee for entering downtown Manhattan.]()
![Cars get stuck in a traffic jam on a Brooklyn highway as they head toward Manhattan. New York's governor Kathy Hochul scrapped a program to charge drivers a fee for entering downtown Manhattan.]()
Caving on climate: Kathy Hochul axes congestion pricing in New York
The state’s Democratic governor is sacrificing a landmark climate policy to score political points.
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![Cars sit in bumper to bumper traffic on a highway.]()
![Cars sit in bumper to bumper traffic on a highway.]()
A highway in Indiana could one day charge your EV while you’re driving it
Construction of the pilot project on U.S. Highway 52 began this month. State officials hope it can help quell range anxiety and electrify long-haul trucks.
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Monitoring a ‘sea of trucks’ in Chicago
Activists found more than 5,000 trucks and buses passing through a single neighborhood in a day.
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![Tourists visiting San Francisco ride their rented Scoot electric scooters down Market Street.]()
![Tourists visiting San Francisco ride their rented Scoot electric scooters down Market Street.]()
8 years into America’s e-scooter experiment, what have we learned?
The climate benefits of shared e-scooters depend upon how companies deploy and manage them, and what steps are taken to keep riders safe.
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Mexico City’s metro system is sinking fast. Yours could be next.
Subsidence is causing parts of Mexico City to sink, and it’s happening at an uneven rate. That’s bad news for its sprawling public transportation system.
