Environment
Opposition Causes Developers To Abandon Plan For New City
A conservation group seeks to buy the land on the border of Joshua Tree National Parkt to ensure that it will never be developed.
Bush Trashes The EPA
The Environmental Protection Agency is working overtime to scuttle the Clean Air Act -- in effect, trashing the environment.
EPA Won't Regulate Greenhouse Gases
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it does not have the legal authority to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
Designing Transportation For People, Not Cars
Bogotá has become a success story that cities around the world are aiming to copy.
Whither The Clean Air Act?
A ruling this week lets plants remodel with no new emissions limits.
Weekend Ozone Effect
Many cities have higher ozone levels on weekends even though nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions go down 10 to 40 percent on weekends.
Nation's Healthiest Cities
How healthy is your city? A survey ranks 10 zones and 125 cities.
Bush On Fire And Under Fire
In efforts to win over swing voters in the Pacific Northwest, Bush tours forest fires and responds vaguely to environmental activists.
Cities With The Worst Air Pollution In The U.S.
New report ranks top metro areas with the worst air pollution, and concludes that half of all Americans are breathing unhealthy air.
Cleaner Skies, But How?
The EPA is about to issue a controversial rule for the nation's dirtiest power plants, forcing a new nose-wrinkling debate.
Bush's Environmental Smokescreen
This editorial is sceptical of the Bush administration's "Healthy Forests" initiative and says the changes to the Clean Air Act are of "dubious value."
Bush Administration Plans To Choke Clean Air Act
The Bush administration plans to open a huge loophole in the Clean Air Act.
Could Cattails Impact The Presidency?
Farm runoff into the Everglades has fostered the growth non-native cattails, which destroy native wildlife.
Ecotopia: Which Is The Most Eco-Friendly U.S. City?
Which U.S. city can rightly claim the title of "Ecotopia?"
The River Runs Through US
The Ohio River's thousand-mile run offers scientists fresh insights into the health of America's waterways, pollution threats, and troubled aquatic life.
Resilience Planning
This evolving form of disaster planning focuses on the ability of a community to recover following a disaster.
Revisiting Love Canal
A neighborhood facing contamination-related health problems brings dejavu to Love Canal and the creation of the Federal Superfund law, and asks how far we have come in addressing environmental justice.
Invasion Of The Exotics
Exotics -- nonnative plants and animals -- have found Florida's subtropical setting nearly perfect, and are flourishing quickly.
Smart Growth For Clean Water
A new report by the National Association of Local Government EnvironmentalProfessionals includes a "Top 10" list of actions that local governments can take to promote smart growth for clean water.
'Healthy Forests' Or 'Smoke Screen?'
Is President Bush's 'Healthy Forests' intiative a sound environmental strategy or a 'smoke screen' for the logging industry? A national expert comments.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
City of Rosemead
Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
One Hundred Miles
University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS)
Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY)
The Architects Foundation
City of Cambridge
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
