The next generation of wireless technology—5G—is dramatically different from previous versions. The 5G technology will enable more data to be carried more quickly, but in many places relies on higher frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum. As a result, its signal…
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) today released the final implementation order for its “Energy Efficiency and Peak Demand Reduction” programs, which will put the state on a pathway to achieve its 2050 climate and clean energy targets…
Amid ongoing demands for justice, New York lawmakers passed a package of police reforms that aims to disrupt ways in which law enforcement misuses its power against Black communities, and helps break the patterns of systemic violence. The legislation repeals…
Despite the links between air pollution and higher rates of COVID-19 deaths, Chicago’s most vulnerable are still being put in harm's way by the city’s dirtiest industrial facilities.
Offshore oil drilling has a host of negative effects on the environment, from the harms to marine life caused by oil exploration, pollution from drilling waste, to the devastating environmental consequences of oil spills.
Every family has the right to a healthy and varied diet, but in too many communities, fresh produce is not available or affordable. As part of a package of policies that expand and strengthen SNAP in the face of the…
A just-released draft environmental impact statement confirms that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is poised to ignore any science or public input that stands in the way of recklessly rewriting the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
Teeming with ancient coral, marine mammals, seabirds, and undiscovered species, the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument is no place for commercial fishing.
This reauthorization is an opportunity for Congress to remake our transportation system as one that works for all and towards a sustainable, equitable, and prosperous future, and we feel the INVEST in America Act rises to that challenge.
President Trump is expected to issue an executive order this afternoon to strip essential protections from a highly protected ocean area — the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument — by lifting all restrictions on commercial fishing. Designated in…
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