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In British Columbia, Native communities, activists, and local government are split over new pipelines and their environmental risks.
“They’re not hearing people speak to them on the issue in a manner that resonates.”
A group of Black residents from St. James Parish, Louisiana, got the green light to hold an hour-long Juneteenth prayer on a burial plot, owned by plastics company Formosa.
Powerful lobbying groups are fighting to block cities from having a final say over building codes that could cut pollution and make energy bills cheaper.
Researchers use models meant for infectious diseases to show how congestion proliferates. That may mean a vaccine for traffic jams is on the horizon.
If the U.S. brought back the Great Depression’s massive worker program, it could put millions of Americans back to work — and help stave off disasters like wildfires.
A new study found that satellite images used to inform fishery closures did not capture the full extent of toxic oil from the 2010 spill.
No more purely transactional relationships in 2020!
Social distancing measures have spawned a grand experiment in cities all over the United States, one that was once only imaginable in urbanists’ wildest dreams.