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Happy Earth Day!
The Trump administration is celebrating the holiday by encouraging local transportation leaders to expand roadway capacity in an effort to end traffic jams — pushing a long-debunked “solution” that will make roads more congested, polluted and fiscally wasteful than before, experts say.
Read all about it — and more of today’s top stories — at the links below.
Centennial events downplay the violent history of one of America’s most “iconic” highways, and obscure how that violence persists to this day.
The U.S. is becoming a dying petrostate, while China leads the world in renewable energy.
“Affordable travel is not a fallback. It is what makes broad mobility possible.”
