14+ hour, 58+ min ago  (259+ words) New York is one of several states exploring surcharges on second homes. The proposal could generate $500 million in annual revenue in New York City, Gov. Kathy Hochul said. The U. S. continues to face a dearth of affordable housing options, and several…...

14+ hour, 26+ min ago  (454+ words) EPA's Water Reuse Action Plan 2. 0 positions recycling as critical to industries like semiconductors and data centers, but local capacity, policy gaps and lingering stigma could complicate delivery. Aimed at normalizing and accelerating water reuse, WRAP 2. 0 recognizes that "states and local…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (388+ words) The Stop Climate Shakedowns Act would strip local governments of legal pathways to hold energy companies liable for climate-related costs and assert federal authority over greenhouse gas emissions. Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate introduced a bill this month…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (325+ words) By ignoring the legal responsibility to uphold its own rule, U. S. EPA is willfully abandoning the agency's duties under the Clean Air Act," California Air Resources Board Chair Lauren Sanchez said. The Clean Air Act requires EPA to set air quality…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago  (232+ words) The bipartisan legislation seeks to bring parity between transit and highway projects to the National Environmental Policy Act permitting process. Titus is a member of the U. S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, which is developing the next surface transportation bill....

10+ mon, 1+ week ago  (334+ words) The open-source model allows cities to monitor vegetation loss in real time and plan smarter greenery investments based on population density and vulnerability. A new open-source model published last month'from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis allows city planners…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago  (400+ words) By layering heat risk, demographics and tree canopy data, the city is prioritizing vulnerable neighborhoods as extreme heat intensifies. Austin, Texas, is leveraging Google Earth tree canopy data and machine learning models to prioritize tree planting in low-canopy areas with…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago  (243+ words) The law aims to supersede local government policies that are not in compliance with the state's anti-camping stance. Since the 2024 Supreme Court ruling that empowered municipalities to ban camping, more local governments are approaching homelessness as a criminal justice issue....

5+ day, 13+ hour ago  (456+ words) A lack of guardrails in internal processes and the technology itself is making governments more vulnerable, a cybersecurity expert says. Artificial intelligence promises to increase efficiency in the workplace, but AI is also streamlining another activity: cyberattacks. Local government networks…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago  (526+ words) The American Lung Association's State of the Air report cites ground-level ozone, data centers and EPA actions as clean-air threats, but cities have levers to curb emissions, an ALA director says. Forty-four percent of U. S. residents live in a county that…...