Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2022 03:10:49 +0000
Spain is getting serious about cleaning up its air, and that’s the case in cities across the country. Due to the Climate Change and Energy Transition Law, most Spanish cities will be implementing low-emission zones within their borders in 2023. Spanish municipalities with 50,000 residents or more have to implement such zones. According to one […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2022 06:59:14 +0000
It’s easy to pass over new policies on the city level or province level since cities and provinces are “small” relative to states and countries. That said, some are huge. The province of Hainan may not be a household name in the United States or Europe, but it is indeed a jurisdiction of more than […]
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2022 02:23:05 +0000
The world’s biggest cities and urban areas face some of the worst air quality on the planet, according to a new report published by HEI. The report, Air Quality and Health in Cities, released by HEI’s State of Global Air Initiative, provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of air pollution and global health impacts for […]
Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 03:44:57 +0000
Across the United States, 80 cities and counties have adopted policies that require or encourage the move off fossil fuels to all-electric homes and buildings. As of August 2022, nearly 28 million people across 11 states live in a jurisdiction where local policies favor fossil fuel-free, healthy buildings. And the momentum behind these policies keeps […]
Credit to Author: Nexus Media| Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2022 11:00:10 +0000
Officials from Portland, New York, Miami and Phoenix discuss plans to keep residents safe in extreme heat.
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2022 03:36:00 +0000
Human activities in distant watersheds influence the potential for contamination of urban drinking water supplies Every day, people across the United States turn on their faucets for a glass of drinking water, but few ever think about where their water originates. For the millions who dwell in urban areas, that water often comes from far […]
Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 17:45:50 +0000
The latest IPCC report cannot emphasize enough that what cities do in the next decade matters.
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 03:58:16 +0000
LYT is a cloud-based software platform using vehicle and machine learning technologies to solve the problem of traffic flow. You may remember my recent article on Elon Musk’s thoughts regarding the use of artificial intelligence to make traffic lights smarter. The problem is that massive amounts of time are wasted at a red light, especially […]
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2022 19:00:30 +0000
Europe’s cities are not doing enough to get their citizens onto environment-friendly transport. Europe’s cities are not doing enough to get their citizens onto environment-friendly transport. That’s the conclusion from a new ranking assessing which of Europe’s urban areas are well placed to reduce their environmental impact. The Clean Cities Campaign (CCC) that compiled the ranking says […]
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 01:40:12 +0000
Today, Lawyers for Good Government Foundation (L4GG), a non-profit network of more than 120,000 legal advocates with lawyers in all 50 states, unveiled its latest comprehensive state energy resource profiles — Ohio, Louisiana, and Oklahoma — as part of its pro-bono climate change program, which seeks to provide the legal resources desperately needed for municipalities to reach 100 percent renewable energy goals