Bipartisan RECLAIM Act passes House as part of infrastructure bill
CCL volunteers began lobbying for the RECLAIM Act in 2019. Bipartisan RECLAIM Act passes House as part of infrastructure bill By Steve Valk The RECLAIM...How Wildfires Make Covid More Dangerous
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Health, Covid-19 and the healing power of architecture
An LWK + PARTNERS director who leads the practice’s healthcare and senior living team, shares the trends of healthcare spaces and the role of design...
How America’s hottest city will survive climate change
High noon in America’s hottest city. The sun blazed in a cloudless sky, making the air shimmer above the softening asphalt. A thermometer registered more...
Chicago Green Infrastructure: A History and Moving Forward
The pace of urbanization across the world has been impressive but as we look back today, a common trend is how often nature has been...In Parched Southwest, Warm Spring Renews Threat of ‘Megadrought’
Rapid melting this year showed that good snowpack doesn’t necessarily translate into full reservoirs.
Spreading rock dust on the ground could pull carbon from the air, researchers say
Spreading rock dust on farmland could pull enough carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to remove about half of the amount of that greenhouse gas currently...
North Carolina Issues New Resilience Plan, Includes Climate Justice Concerns
In early June, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) submitted the North Carolina Climate Risk Assessment and Resilience Plan to Governor Cooper’s office....