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Companies are starting to label their products, from food and drink to cosmetics, to show how their products impact the climate – but will consumers understand?

Smaller cities aim to lure newly-remote tech workers with perks ranging from cash handouts to free babysitting

For years, the smell of gas wafting through the grounds of the Franciscan Village senior housing facility in Cleveland was a joke among its residents, although they did not realize where the odor was coming from. A few months ago they found out. An old gas well left unused since the 1950s had broken its ...

As many as 120,000 jobs could be created by stopping abandoned oil and gas wells leaking climate-warming methane into the atmosphere

A federal program to plug a half-million wells could create as many as 120,000 specialized oil and gas industry jobs https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/research/report/green-stimulus-oil-and-gas-workers-considering-major-federal-effort-plug-orphaned-and-abandoned, according to 2020 research from Columbia University and Resources for the Future, a think-tank. The Well Done Foundation has already been doing this work for a few years, pioneering a funding approach that uses carbon credits linke...

From San Francisco to the Midwest to New York, the pandemic has triggered a policy rethink about the fairness of fines and fees for prison phone calls, overdue ...

Many cities went to fareless systems to protect public health or boost flagging ridership, but are now focused on equity

Hunger, high prices and economic instability are driving local efforts to boost food security.

With federal pandemic aid on offer for revitalization, some local governments are using empty parcels to respond to local needs

With federal pandemic aid on offer for revitalization, some local governments are using empty parcels to respond to local needs