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A Fort Lauderdale bike registry program aimed to reduce theft, but it also gave cops a reason to stop cyclists, and -- surprise! -- African Americans took most of the heat.
Tyrone Hayes took on a massive chemical company over the impacts of its top-selling herbicide. His story is the subject of a new Amazon original documentary produced by The New Yorker.
A catalogue of shame.
States are charged with implementing Obama's carbon rule for power plants. Which ones will cooperate and which ones won't?
Community land trusts can guarantee a level of economic diversity in urban neighborhoods, and help locals take charge of their own destiny.
The people who deny climate change are most likely to suffer from it.
Turns out that wider lanes only encourage people to drive faster, with deadly results.
We pitted Boston and Seattle against each other based on some of our favorite urban metrics -- like transit, oysters, and celebrity activists.
The main goal of transportation that costs riders nothing — getting people out of their cars — can't be achieved by eliminating fares.