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Transportation ‘Revolution’? How The Infrastructure Law Fuels Freeways [1]

"The Biden administration is supporting a nearly $10 billion highway expansion in Houston that ignited a yearlong debate about its climate effects and the demolition of almost 1,000 homes."

Energy & Fuel [2]
Environmental Justice [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Infrastructure [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Transportation [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [10]
Source: E&E News [11], 05/16/2023
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Flush With Federal Money, a Deep South Factory Votes to Unionize [12]

"Workers at a rural Georgia factory that builds electric school buses under generous federal subsidies voted to unionize on Friday, handing organized labor and Democrats a surprise victory in their hopes to turn huge new infusions of money from Washington into a union beachhead in the Deep South."

Climate Change [13]
Economy & Business [14]
Energy & Fuel [2]
Environmental Justice [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Transportation [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [15]
Source: NYTimes [16], 05/15/2023
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"Florida Lawmakers Want To Use Radioactive Material To Pave Roads" [17]

"Roads in Florida could soon include phosphogypsum — a radioactive waste material from the fertilizer industry — under a bill lawmakers have sent to Gov. Ron DeSantis."

Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Politics [4]
Infrastructure [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [19]
Pollution [20]
Transportation [7]
Public [8]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [15]
Source: NPR [21], 05/11/2023
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Rail Safety Bill, Inspired by Fiery Ohio Derailment, Clears Major Hurdle [22]

"A Senate committee on Wednesday advanced legislation aimed at preventing disasters like February’s fiery train derailment and chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio."

Chemicals [23]
Disasters [24]
Environmental Health [18]
Infrastructure [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Transportation [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: HuffPost [25], 05/11/2023
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Can Ethanol Fuel Ever Live Up to Its Hype? [26]

"The biofuel's bipartisan support isn't about science, but politics."

Agriculture [27]
Climate Change [13]
Energy & Fuel [2]
Environmental Politics [4]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Transportation [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Grist [28], 05/09/2023
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"West Oakland Faces A Test: Undoing Decades Of Environmental Injustice" [29]

"Highway and city planners saddled a once-proud Black community with freeways and diesel fumes, while more affluent white neighborhoods were spared the traffic and toxics."

Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Justice [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Infrastructure [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Planning & Growth [30]
Pollution [20]
Transportation [7]
Public [8]
California [31]
Source: Washington Post [32], 05/08/2023
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Senators Hopeful They Can Keep Rail Safety Bill On Track After E Palestine [33]

"Three months after the devastating East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment, senators are optimistic they can pass a bipartisan rail safety bill to prevent similar disasters."

Chemicals [23]
Disasters [24]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Politics [4]
Infrastructure [5]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [20]
Transportation [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: The Hill [34], 05/04/2023
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"They Pollute. You Pay (Literally)." [35]

"How regular taxpayers are subsidizing the ultra-wealthy's use of climate-polluting private jets."

"Just 70 miles south of Pittsburgh in rural Farmington, Pennsylvania, there is a luxury resort called Nemacolin. Best known as the lavish location where ABC filmed The Bachelor during pandemic lockdowns, the 2,000-acre property hosts three hotels, seven eateries, a casino, two spas, and two golf courses. It also has a private airstrip for guests to land their jets.

Air [36]
Climate Change [13]
Energy & Fuel [2]
Environmental Justice [3]
Infrastructure [5]
Transportation [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: HEATED [37], 05/03/2023
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"How Dust Storms Happen, And Why They’re So Dangerous" [38]

"Dust storms can contribute to massive highway pileups and turn day to night in an instant".

Climate Change [13]
Disasters [24]
Environmental Health [18]
Transportation [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Washington Post [39], 05/03/2023
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"California Phases Out Diesel Trucks: What Happens Next?" [40]

"In a move that will transform California’s economy and end diesel’s decades-long dominance in goods movement, the Air Resources Board today unanimously approved an ambitious, contentious mandate to shift big rigs and other trucks to zero-emissions."

Air [36]
Climate Change [13]
Energy & Fuel [2]
Laws & Regulations [6]
Pollution [20]
Transportation [7]
Public [8]
National (U.S.) [9]
California [31]
Source: CalMatters [41], 05/01/2023
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