Year after year, state and local governments propose billions of dollars’ worth of new and expanded highways that often do little to reduce congestion or address real transportation challenges, while diverting scarce funding from infrastructure repairs and key transportation priorities.
Frontier Group provides information and ideas to build a healthier, more sustainable America.
Millions of Americans rely on the energy produced by natural gas to turn the lights on, cook their food and heat their homes. But many do not understand the full scale of the environmental and human costs that come with it, or the lengths energy companies go to to hide those costs.
Our current system of consumption and disposal wastes natural resources and creates pollution that threatens our health, environment and the global climate. Trash in America explores how the costs of this system fall on society at large – not on the producers and consumers who drive it – and argues that America should move toward an economic system characterized by zero waste and a “closed-loop” economy in which less is consumed and all materials are reused, recycled and composted in a continuous cycle.
