May 19, 2021
There are finance and tax tools that can be used to promote a more sustainable future for cities.
United States city budgets are tighter than ever due to COVID-19. The American Rescue Plan Act, recently passed by Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden, will provide some relief in the near term, while the proposed American Jobs Plan offers a tantalizing vision of federal infrastructure investments that could drive local climate action and equity nationwide.
Yet there remains an immutable reality that U.S. cities without dedicated revenue streams to fund climate change mitigation, resilience and environmental justice will continue to face fiscal constraints. Simply put, these social and environmental causes are at risk of being deprioritized when they stand side-by-side with other essential services.
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Solar panels on homes in Boulder, Colorado. Industrial customers pay the largest share of Boulder s carbon tax, which funds equity programs and climate initiatives. Photo by Dennis Schroeder/NREL
U.S. city budgets are tighter than ever due to COVID-19. The American Rescue Plan Act, recently passed by Congress and signed into law by President Biden, will provide some relief in the near term, while the proposed American Jobs Plan offers a tantalizing vision of federal infrastructure investments that could drive local climate action and equity nationwide.
Yet there remains an immutable reality that U.S. cities without dedicated revenue streams to fund climate change mitigation, resilience and environmental justice will continue to face fiscal constraints. Simply put, these social and environmental causes are at risk of being deprioritized when they stand side-by-side with other essential services.
Subway Commuters Come Together to Tell an Anti-masker to Shut Up
On 5/3/21 at 1:23 PM EDT
As mask-wearing continues to be a normal part of daily life well over a year after the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, much of society has adjusted to the practice.
However, there remains a large outlier of people who fight back against wearing a mask for a variety of reasons. Hundreds of videos have surfaced of anti-maskers making scenes in restaurants, grocery stores, businesses and, in this case, on public transport as they refuse to adhere to private, local or federal rules.
In a recent video from Sunday, a woman without a mask was caught creating a nuisance on Long Island Rail Road (LIRR). The 32-second long clip was tweeted by handle @Tim Tweeted who captioned the video Anti-masker on LIRR gets a unison SHUT UP shouted at her.
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