A national infrastructure bank could reduce the complexity of expensive transportation projects, funding high-speed rail networks quickly and creating thousands of jobs in the U.S.
To reduce greenhouse gas emissions, more and more cities are choosing renewable energy sources. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership is a voluntary program designed to promote and recognize the use of green power by leading U.S. organizations and communities.
President Obama’s transportation plan includes an upfront $50 billion investment in transportation to jumpstart job creation, the creation of an Infrastructure Bank to leverage federal dollars, a commitment to high-speed rail, and a dedication to environmental sustainability and increasing transportation choices in communities.
Presents summaries of energy saving initiatives across five cities as a result of Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) funds and provides an update on the federal bipartisan effort supporting the continuation of this important program.
An innovative energy finance strategy, the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program, was unexpectedly suspended following an objection by the Federal Housing Finance Agency. This article outlines the importance of this program to local communities and steps NLC has taken in response.
In a hearing before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, Kansas City, Mo., Councilwoman Jan Marcason discussed the important role of clean water infrastructure investment in creating jobs, protecting the environment and improving the quality of life in cities and towns. Councilwoman Marcason also described Kansas City’s 25-year, $2.5 billion program to improve the city’s water quality.
Guest author Bill Fay of the Energy Efficiency Codes Coalition (EECC) explains the importance of building codes for local governments and details on how cities can participate in the International Code Council final action hearings.
A new NLC report, “Community Wellness: Comprehensive City-School Strategies to Reduce Childhood Obesity,” focuses on lessons learned by cities that, with technical assistance from NLC, sought to develop and implement local wellness strategies to combat childhood obesity.
Vice-Mayor of Cambridge, Mass. and 2010 Chairwoman of NLC’s Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources (EENR) Committee Henrietta Davis shares key messages on the importance of energy efficiency for local government from the 2010 National Symposium on Market Transformation.
A recent report by Butler University Professors Roberto Curci and Robert Mackoy evaluates the integration of immigrant-owned businesses into local economies. Based on face-to-face interviews with 199 Hispanic business enterprises in Indianapolis, the study creates a framework that classifies immigrant-owned businesses as highly-segmented, product-integrated, market-integrated or highly-integrated.
