The Louisiana Board of Commerce and Industry unanimously granted tax credits totaling millions of dollars for two huge industrial projects in Plaquemines and Caldwell parishes.
Bank to pay $31M redlining settlement, DOJ’s largest ever

The Justice Department charged Los Angeles-based City National Bank with discrimination for refusing to underwrite mortgages in mostly Black and Latino areas, and the bank was ordered to pay more than $31 million in the department's biggest redlining settlement in history. City National avoided selling and insuring mortgages in primarily Black and Latino Los Angeles County areas between 2017 and 2020, according to the Justice Department. City National will construct a $29.5 million loan subsidy fund for loans to Black and Latino borrowers as part of the settlement, and will spend $1.75 million on advertising, community outreach, and financial education initiatives to target minority borrowers.
Dr. Earthea Nance, Regional Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency for Region 6, visited with communities 29 times in FY2022.
SOURCE Global, a public benefit organization, is collaborating with Texas politicians and charities to provide safe drinking water.
More than a third of Harris County's acreage is in a FEMA-designated flood plain, a statistic that is anticipated to rise significantly when FEMA issues revised flood maps.
Every day, the process of processing crude oil into petroleum creates millions of gallons of wastewater containing hazardous chemicals and heavy metals.
The Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences at the University of Oklahoma.
According to a Texas Tribune review of state statistics dating back to 1999, heat-related mortality in Texas set a new high for the century last year.
According to official statistics, the typical inhabitant in the northeast Houston neighborhood of Settegast can expect to live for 66 years.
This year's Open Forum, a Davos 2023 side event, highlighted views from communities who are underrepresented in global business and government.
South Africa has identified more than 60 billion rand ($3.5 billion) in investments needed to assist communities in the coal-mining province of Mpumalanga.
Community solar projects include the building of huge photovoltaic (PV) systems, the net outputs of which are subsequently allocated to consumers in other areas.
A newly released special research issue pulls participants and contributions from four continents and contains articles that explore global or transnational viewpoints.
Municipalities are pushing green climate-adaptive infrastructure projects to mitigate climate hazards and maximize socio-environmental advantages.
Researchers investigated the challenges that stakeholders (government, community, and consultants) face while implementing a new California legislation (Senate Bill 1000) requirin
The Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD) coalition led the development of a real-time unit to monitor, expose, and resist anti-climate campaigns in the run-up to the 2022.