The Washington Post reported on one of the new 2018 highway boondoggles: Maryland's $9 billion "Traffic Relief Plan."
From South Padre Island to Galveston Bay, and from the San Marcos River to Lake Lewisville, Texas rivers, lakes and beaches draw thousands of people every time the sun is out and the temperature is up. But many of the waterways where Texans love to play are sometimes too polluted for people to go swimming, tubing, or wading safely. An analysis of water testing data from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) reveals that Texas beaches, rivers and lakes frequently exceed bacteria levels deemed safe under state law, indicating unsafe levels of fecal contamination.
We face a critical choice right now: we can change our lifestyles to minimize global warming -- or we can let global warming claim our treasured traditions, like sitting around a campfire.
Here are two things you probably don’t know about colonoscopies. First, they’re one of the most commonly performed screening exams. Millions of us get colonoscopies each year, but we don’t like to talk about it. Second, you probably don’t know how much a colonoscopy costs, even if you are a patient who has scheduled an exam. That’s because colonoscopies are like most health care services: patients don’t know the cost in advance of receiving care.
What does “human error” really mean? And what is the role of automated vehicles in protecting us from it? These are important questions to clarify if we are going to get the greatest safety benefit out of AV technology.
In a CNN opinion piece, policy analyst Alana Miller described the threat of oil and gas drilling to one of America's iconic natural areas: Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado.
An AP story reported on the finding from Trouble in the Air that the Las Vegas area had 145 days of poor air quality in 2016.
Florida canceled plans to add toll roads along Interstate 275 in Tampa, a project that we highlighted as a "highway boondoggle" in our 2016 report.
Our latest Following the Money report sparked editorials calling for more government transparency in states including West Virginia and Rhode Island.
Our new report on the environmental benefits of electric buses was covered by the Washington Post and Associated Press.
