The South Bronx Has a Pollution Issue. Congestion Pricing May Worsen It.

Par : Hilary Howard

2 février 2025 à 09:00

Preliminary data from the first few weeks of New York City’s tolling plan show a possible uptick in traffic in the neighborhood.

Traffic on the Cross Bronx Expressway has long been detrimental to the health of residents in the area.

Reeves’s Heathrow expansion plans leave Labour’s green agenda grounded

The Guardian

Par : Toby Helm Political editor

2 février 2025 à 07:00

The chancellor’s apparent volte-face in backing a third runway has left many in her party disillusioned and led them to label it as an act of desperation

In 2020, Rachel Reeves, the MP for Leeds West and Pudsey, was clear why she opposed expansion of nearby Leeds Bradford airport. It would, she said, “significantly increase air and noise pollution”, so on environmental grounds, it should not happen.

By the autumn of 2021, as shadow chancellor, Reeves was the senior Labour figure chosen to lead her party’s hugely ambitious plans for a green industrial revolution.

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7 Steps L.A. Could Take to Gird Against Future Wildfires

NYT

Par : Somini Sengupta

1 février 2025 à 11:01

Around the world, other communities are experimenting with ideas that Los Angeles could borrow as it rebuilds from disastrous wildfires.

A neighborhood burns at the onset of January’s catastrophic Los Angeles-area fires.

‘Insanely tasty green food’: how the meaty Danes embraced a world-first plant-based plan

The Guardian

Par : Damian Carrington

31 janvier 2025 à 13:00

Agreement between farmers, politicians and environmental groups led to a €170m action fund for plant based food

“Plant-based foods are the future.” That is not a statement you would expect from a right-wing farming minister in a major meat-producing nation. Denmark produces more meat per capita than any other country in the world, with its 6 million people far outnumbered by its 30 million pigs, and it has a big dairy industry too. Yet this is how Jacob Jensen, from the Liberal party, introduced the nation’s world-first action plan for plant-based foods.

“If we want to reduce the climate footprint within the agricultural sector, then we all have to eat more plant-based foods,” he said at the plan’s launch in October 2023, and since then the scheme has gone from strength to strength. Backed by a €170m government fund, it is now supporting plant-based food from farm to fork, from making tempeh from broad beans and a chicken substitute from fungi to on-site tastings at kebab and burger shops and the first vegan chef degree.

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