The House Agriculture Committee introduced the 2018 Farm Bill today, with provisions gutting Endangered Species Act to weaken pesticide protections. Debate on this year’s bill is expected to continue for weeks.
The Senate is expected to vote today on the nomination of Andrew Wheeler, President Trump’s pick for deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
A new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council, endorsed by the City of Los Angeles, offers cutting-edge recommendations for tackling the city’s notorious transportation challenges, as technology in the form of rides-on-demand and autonomous vehicles revolutionizes how people move…
Under the Fair Housing Act, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is tasked with making sure recipients of its federal funds, such as the city of Albuquerque, do not discriminate on the basis of race.
In January’s State of the State address, Governor Cuomo promised that by Earth Day, New York would have a new comprehensive energy efficiency framework, including a 2025 target for lowering the State’s overall energy consumption.
PJM, the transmission grid operator for parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest, filed two competing proposals Monday at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the agency tasked with ensuring that wholesale electricity market rules result in reasonable rates. Both proposals would…
Ahmedabad’s pioneering strategy to protect people from killer heat waves is rapidly catching on across India, and beyond, as more communities adopt their own Heat Action Plans to shield people from dangerously hot weather worsened by climate change.
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