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  • Could the Mississippi River benefit from Chesapeake Bay's strategy to improve water quality?

    June 21, 2024 |

    Wisconsin Watch |

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    Response Location: United States

    A unique regional cleanup program was designed to reduce the nutrient runoff in the Chesapeake Bay using a legally-enforceable pollution quota across six U.S. states.

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  • Former foster youth are eligible for federal housing aid. Georgia isn't helping them get it

    June 11, 2024 |

    WABE |

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    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    The federal Foster Youth to Independence program provides housing vouchers for young people leaving the foster system to help them keep up with rent as they transition to living on their own. But states have to coordinate the funding with local housing agencies, and in Georgia, a lack of coordination led to only eight vouchers being distributed since the program began.

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  • A post-mortem on Oregon's drug decriminalization efforts

    May 29, 2024 |

    WBUR |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    While the decriminalization effort Measure 110 failed to fully meet the mark, the Health Justice Recovery Alliance joined forces with local law enforcement to create a pilot program that helped locals struggling with addiction. Through the program, police can contact an outreach worker who will come to the scene and connect the person struggling with addiction to support services such as detox care and housing, helping lead them toward long-term recovery. So far, the pilot program has helped over 200 people.

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  • What will it take to get companies to embrace reusable packaging?

    May 01, 2024 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States

    The nonprofit PR3 is working to standardize reusable packaging systems for businesses like coffee shops and grocery stores to make them easier to scale and adopt as a replacement to single-use materials.

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  • 8 years into America's e-scooter experiment, what have we learned?

    April 15, 2024 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States

    E-scooters have struggled to find their footing since spreading across the United States as an eco-friendly transportation option. Companies like Lime are looking for ways to increase rider safety and ensure the scooters are as sustainable as possible.

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  • North Carolina tried to rebuild affordable housing after a hurricane. It took half a decade.

    April 03, 2024 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s disaster recovery program provides federal funding to build affordable apartments in areas that have lost significant housing stock to disasters such as hurricanes. But due to the required congressional approval process and complex regulations, projects funded by the program often take so long to complete that people affected by the disaster are not able to benefit from the housing. In North Carolina, one such development opened to tenants more than five years after Hurricane Florence struck the area.

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  • Why Portland failed where Portugal succeeded in decriminalizing drugs

    March 28, 2024 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    After the Oregon Legislature voted to reverse a law decriminalizing drug possession for personal use in response to a spike in overdoses, advocates attributed the legislation’s failure to poor implementation, complications related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and inadequate time to produce results.

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  • The Government Set a Fire in New Mexico. It Burned 341,735 Acres

    March 10, 2024 |

    Rolling Stone |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    The most destructive wildfire in New Mexico’s modern history started as a prescribed burn managed by the United States Forest Service. These fires are meticulously planned and executed to remove flora that increases the risk of extreme wildfires, and the vast majority of them go as planned. The Calf Canyon/Hermit’s Peak Fire did not, leaving officials and locals to assess what went wrong and rebuild the impacted communities.

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  • Dairy Digesters Promise to Cut Methane — Unfortunately, They Might Be an Inefficient Band-Aid

    March 07, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Dairy digesters are oxygen-free systems that break down organic material like manure and turn methane into “biogas,” which can be used to generate electricity or processed into transportation fuel. Once heralded and championed by the California Department of Food and Agriculture as one of the most cost-effective emissions reductions programs, new research shows the real cost is up to 17-times more than what state and industry officials have publicly claimed.

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  • Why a White House Plan to Fund Office-to-Housing Conversions Isn't Working Yet

    February 29, 2024 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States

    The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Build America Bureau allocated $35 billion in funding for development projects near public transportation that would transform underutilized offices into much-needed housing.

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