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Decarbonizing Transportation Must Come with People-Powered Mobility Justice

Union of Concerned Scientists

New narratives, startups, and mobility experiments were based on great optimism about electric, digital, autonomous, hybrid, micro, or even aerial (drone) mobilities. That means beginning from a mobility justice outlook, as outlined in my book Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes.

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Maryland Building Energy Performance Standards Effective January 1

Greenbuilding Law

This follows our post last week alerting commercial real estate owners and tenants in those buildings in Maryland about these regulations requiring Greenhouse Gas Data Must be Collected Beginning January 1 in Maryland. 7) For covered buildings with fewer than five tenants, electric.”.

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The Emerging New Economic Geography of the United States

Environmental and Urban Economics

So, this logic says that local quality of life causes economics growth if the geography of the location and the political economy of local land use regulation is such that the place allows new construction to take place. Real Estate prices are low in these cities relative to other cities of similar size. Whites are moving away.

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Desalination and Alternative Water Supply and Efficiency

Vermont Law

coastlines is a much more complex environmental, economical, and political discussion. Cities should be utilizing expensive coastline real estate to adapt to the effects of climate change to address increases in heat-waves, storm surges, and inundation. [1]. While simplistic. rising sea-levels. population growth. According to a.

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Arizona’s Future Water Shock

Circle of Blue

The nearly 23,000-member Gila River Indian Community is modernizing: adding to its group of casinos, preparing to expand its irrigated farm acres, and elevating its influence in Arizona’s politics and economy. Regulatory changes in water policy and practice are some of the steepest cliffs in Arizona’s political landscape.

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Decolonization Is Critical for Puerto Rico to Achieve Representation in Climate Negotiations

Union of Concerned Scientists

Sánchez Valle ) , together with the recent disastrous, expensive, and unaccountable privatization of electricity generation, transmission, and distribution, prove beyond any doubt that the authority to decide on issues that affect Puerto Rico lies, not on the people of Puerto Rico, but with US Congress. SCOTUS’ Puerto Rico v.

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The Stream, May 31, 2023: Iran and Taliban Exchange Gunfire, Heightening Water Tension

Circle of Blue

Typhoon Mawar, the largest storm to hit Guam since 2002, has left many residents without water or electricity. Per InsideClimate News, the decision is a win for small landowners, real estate developers, and construction companies who previously required federal permits to build on wetland habitat.

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