In San Benito County, CA, a citizens’ group, Aromas Cares for the Environment, waged a successful campaign for new environmental protections to protect against oil and gas fracking operations. The fracking safety ordinance was passed by the County Board of Supervisors on June 18, 2013.
California communities like Aromas should not have to protect themselves alone. We need an immediate statewide moratorium on fracking.
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Mark Gorton interviews award-winning journalist Charles Montgomery about his fantastic new book “Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Thru Urban Design,” which delves in to the hard-to-measure metric of happiness and how the built environment of the place we live directly affects us.
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The Value of Water Coalition hosted an in-depth conversation at the Newseum in Washington DC on the current condition of water infrastructure in the United States, the consequences of letting these failing systems worsen, and solutions to meeting the water challenges of today and tomorrow.
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Deepwater Wind discusses their research alongside commercial fishermen in Rhode Island, ensuring that their offshore wind installations will benefit everyone.
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1970s Bicycles Are Beautiful – Film With Bill Cosby.
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Updated flyover renderings of the new South Capitol Street Corridor in Washington D.C.
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Kern County is the most-fracked county in California by a wide margin. This region also has the worst air quality in the nation, as well as highly elevated rates of cancer and respiratory illness. For the people that live here, fracking means more oil extraction, more crippling climate impacts, and more impacts on their health.
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At more than 100 feet long, 14 feet wide and weighing approximately 270,000 pounds, one of the new straddle bent bridge beams arrived to the Verona Road (US 18/151) construction site in Madison, Wisconsin.
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MTA Bus Operators undergo a rigorous training process that makes them some of the safest in the industry.
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Have you ever wondered what goes on during the rock blasting closures on I-90? This is a montage of rock blasting operations on I-90 from 2013.
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