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The answer: try at least $500 million.
The study finds that, despite their cost and other drawbacks, such programs can help small cities reach their climate goals.
Unseasonably early blooms can wreak havoc on allergies, disease vectors, and agriculture.
Steel towns will see some reductions in toxic pollution from new regulations — but not as much as they’d hoped.
A quarter of marine life depends on coral reefs. So do 1 billion people.
Despite health risks, Puerto Rico keeps tax incentives in place for cancer-causing chemical polluters.
The city’s nearly 400,000 pipes wouldn’t have to be fully removed for nearly 30 years after the rest of the nation.
The presidential campaign bad-mouthed FEMA while using crowdfunding to donate to evangelical nonprofits.
As heavy rains overwhelm aging pipes, Boston and NYC are choosing very different paths forward.
