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Walkability Index Helps Journalists Highlight Planning Issues [1]

Many local government decisions come down to a key factor: walkability. And that’s not just a question of transportation infrastructure. As the latest Reporter’s Toolbox notes, walkability is also an environmental consideration. To turn that simple truth into stories about the built environment, here’s a high-quality, mappable walkability index. How to use the database smartly, plus questions to ask that will get your reporting started.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Reporters Toolbox [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [5]
Infrastructure [6]
Journalism & Media [7]
People & Population [8]
Planning & Growth [9]
Policy [10]
Transportation [11]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [12]
Visibility: 
Public [13]
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Trump Climate Science Denial Hinges on … Not Saying the Word [14]

A war on the facts behind climate change — and on the actions to address it — is well underway in the second Trump administration. The new WatchDog Opinion column takes the measure of the battlefront, eyeing key examples of the political onslaught, including a concerted effort to eradicate the very term itself. Regulations killed, research discredited, speech censored and more.

SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog [15]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [16]
Environmental Justice [17]
Environmental Politics [4]
Environmental Studies [18]
Government [5]
Journalism & Media [7]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Planning & Growth [9]
Policy [10]
Science [20]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [12]
Visibility: 
Public [13]
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Businesses Face 'Chaos' As EPA Aims To Repeal Its Climate Authority [21]

"The Trump administration's plan to undo a landmark finding that climate pollution threatens public health and welfare poses lots of risks for corporate America."

Climate Change [3]
Economy & Business [22]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Planning & Growth [9]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: NPR [23], 08/21/2025
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"China Rushes To Build Out Solar, And Emissions Edge Downward" [24]

"China has been installing solar panels at a blistering pace, far faster than anywhere else in the world, and the investment is starting to pay off. A study released Thursday found that the country’s carbon emissions edged down 1% in the first six months of the year compared to a year earlier, extending a trend that began in March 2024."

Climate Change [3]
Economy & Business [22]
Energy & Fuel [16]
Infrastructure [6]
Planning & Growth [9]
Pollution [25]
Technology [26]
Public [13]
Asia [27]
Source: AP [28], 08/21/2025
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Geothermal Network in Colorado Could Help Rural Town Diversify Its Economy [29]

"Hayden, a long-established coal community, is pitching companies to come take advantage of “reliable, cost-effective heating and cooling” at its light industrial park once its new geothermal network is complete."

Climate Change [3]
Economy & Business [22]
Energy & Fuel [16]
Government [5]
Infrastructure [6]
Planning & Growth [9]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [12]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [30]
Source: Inside Climate News [31], 08/21/2025
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A Toxic Landfill Was on the Brink of Expanding. Residents Fought Back and Won [32]

"A decades-long battle to transform a Southeast Chicago lakefront property into a public park is starting to bear fruit. But where the new toxic sludge will go has yet to be determined."

Biodiversity [33]
Chemicals [34]
Consumer [35]
Environmental Health [36]
Environmental Justice [17]
Environmental Politics [4]
Natural Resources [37]
Planning & Growth [9]
Pollution [25]
Waste [38]
Public [13]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [39]
Source: Inside Climate News [40], 08/21/2025
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Restoring Marshes, Dunes, Reefs To Protect Against Rising Seas, Storm Surges [41]

"Coastal communities nationwide are ramping up efforts to fend off rising seas, higher tides and stronger storm surges that are chewing away at coastlines, pushing saltwater farther inland and threatening ecosystems and communities."

Climate Change [3]
Infrastructure [6]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [37]
People & Population [8]
Planning & Growth [9]
Technology [26]
Water & Oceans [42]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: AP [43], 08/19/2025
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"‘Sponge City’: How Copenhagen Is Adapting to a Wetter Future" [44]

"Climate change is bringing ever more precipitation and rising seas to low-lying Denmark. In response to troubling predictions, Copenhagen is enacting an ambitious plan to build hundreds of nature-based and engineered projects to soak up, store, and redistribute future floods."

Climate Change [3]
Disasters [45]
Economy & Business [22]
Infrastructure [6]
Natural Resources [37]
People & Population [8]
Planning & Growth [9]
Water & Oceans [42]
Public [13]
International [46]
Europe [47]
Source: YaleE360 [48], 08/04/2025
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"How Flood-Ravaged Boston Took On The Climate Deniers – And Won" [49]

"As the Trump administration dismisses global heating, the coastal city is getting on with becoming one of the most climate resilient in the world. Here’s how" 

Climate Change [3]
Disasters [45]
Environmental Politics [4]
Infrastructure [6]
Natural Resources [37]
People & Population [8]
Planning & Growth [9]
Water & Oceans [42]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [12]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [50]
Source: Guardian [51], 08/04/2025
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Trump Team Still Eyeing Hundreds Of Thousands Acres Of Public Land For Housing [52]

"Will the administration’s ongoing push to open federal lands for housing development face the same public backlash that Sen. Mike Lee triggered?" 

Biodiversity [33]
Environmental Politics [4]
Infrastructure [6]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [37]
People & Population [8]
Planning & Growth [9]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Public Domain [53], 07/25/2025
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