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The company's proposed $100 billion carbon capture project would require a "large-scale" public-private partnership and could capture up to 100 million tons of carbon per year.

April 27 - Houston Chronicle

Bidding wars, TikToks, and disparate impacts—every day there's more evidence that the pandemic has only worsened the nation's housing affordability crisis.

April 27 - Slate

Advocates want to see a safer plan for the proposed two-way path on one of the country's busiest commuter corridors.

April 27 - Curbed

Setting the table as the nation awaits the first results from the 2020 Census.

April 26 - National Public Radio

In a park-poor neighborhood, vacant lots provide an untapped opportunity for small-scale parks.

April 26 - Rice Kinder Institute for Urban Research

Data from cities across the country show that bike helmet laws are enforced more aggressively in communities of color.

April 26 - The Guardian

Hong Kong's leaders want to build more parking for the growing number of private vehicles, but transportation experts suggest parking management could be a faster and more affordable solution.

April 26 - Transit Jam

What are the New Deal for Housing Justice and the BREATHE Act and how do they move beyond previous housing agendas?

April 26 - Shelterforce Magazine

Transit planning is land use planning and land use planning is transit planning.

April 26 - Mass Transit

Inspiration for the cause of putting a 25-acre park on top of a 14-lane freeway.

April 26 - Urbanize Atlanta

The city's plan to charge vehicles entering Manhattan's central business district could reduce traffic and raise $1 billion a year for the city's transportation infrastructure.

April 26 - New York Daily News

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Discussing the trade-offs between making government leaner and making traffic safer.

April 25 - Michael Lewyn

Visually striking and aggressively invasive, kudzu has been choking the Southeast for decades. Now, designers, chefs, and activists want to find ways to make it useful.

April 25 - Southerly Magazine

Of the $568 billion in spending proposed by the "Republican Roadmap," $299 billion would go to infrastructure for cars.

April 25 - Bloomberg

The vision proposed by the groundbreaking Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan is taking shape as zoning amendments move toward adoption.

April 25 - The Minnesota Daily

Elon Musk, a favorite target of satirists and urbanists alike, is once again the subject of The Onion's withering pen.

April 23 - The Onion

Checking in with the Bike(+) Plan in Pittsburgh.

April 23 - KDKA2

Cities are beginning to recognize that effective curb management is an important part of reducing congestion and ensuring equitable use of public space.

April 23 - Governing

Contrary to the dominant narrative about the negative perceptions of affordable housing projects among the public, a recent survey reveals widespread support for affordable housing in the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut metropolitan region.

April 23 - Regional Plan Association

At the "Leaders Summit on Climate" today, President Joe Biden has pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States by 50-52 percent from 2005 levels by the year 2030.

April 22 - USA Today