At a time when the U.S. housing shortage has caused home prices to soar, removing the barriers that prevent more manufactured ...

As extreme weather events become more intense and more common, states already face an estimated backlog of nearly $1 trillion for deferred maintenance and needed upgrades to public infrastructure. To ...

Crucial protections for more than 28 million acres of wildlife habitat and traditional Tribal land in Alaska will remain—precluding large-scale development—thanks to a recent decision from the U.S.

Many of the estuaries in the United States were once much larger than previously known, a critical finding as policymakers work to protect and restore these ecosystems. Estuaries—where a freshwater ...

More than four years after the pandemic began dramatically changing downtown economies, recent information shows that cities are finally recovering from the effects of the widespread shift to remote ...

State policymakers are developing and employing a range of strategies to take full advantage of flexible federal pandemic funding ahead of upcoming deadlines. Lawmakers in Vermont and Mississippi, for ...

Editor’s note: Figures and 1 and 2 were revised on Nov. 18, 2024, to reflect the correct year that California’s program was launched. Note: This article updates with new data a piece published in ...

WASHINGTON—The Pew Charitable Trusts today praised the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s passage of the Reinvesting in Shoreline Economies and Ecosystems (RISEE) Act. The bipartisan ...

For the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic, federal student loan borrowers who miss payments are once again vulnerable to delinquency and default. This follows the expiration of the U.S.

Stat: 41%: The share of U.S. adults who have some form of health care debt. Story: Millions of Americans are struggling with debt, from credit card bills to unexpected medical expenses. And many face ...

An estimated 60 million people live in the 10 countries that fringe the biodiversity-rich Western Indian Ocean (WIO), where they rely on a healthy marine environment for food security, livelihoods, ...