As Kansas City updates climate plan, stakeholders push for inclusion and accountability
After a delayed start, a process to update the city’s largely ignored 2008 climate action plan is underway. Stakeholders hope the revision will be more inclusive, better funded, and hold leaders more accountable.
How decades of neglect left Detroit’s grid vulnerable to powerful storms
Don’t blame trees — blame the lack of tree trimming around power lines for the region’s growing outage problems, critics say.
Connecticut losing ground on building emissions despite efficiency programs
Climate activists say the state’s progress on reducing building emissions has been far too slow given the pace of the climate crisis, and that it needs to end incentives for energy-efficient natural gas heating.
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