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Washington, DC – The latest version of the Senate climate-protection bill put forth by U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, would provide significant resources and incentives to communities to plan and build cleaner, more convenient travel and living options.
The Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act [...]

Are you interested in learning more about the way that the Regeneration Act currently before Congress could aid struggling communities, or about how other struggling communities are developing forward-thinking approaches to rebuild their economies, create urban food systems, and supply amenities like parks and green space?
If you’re in the DC area next week, stop into [...]

This is the latest edition of the Washington Update from Smart Growth America. The Washington Update is a typically policy-heavy newsletter covering federal policy developments here in Washington. If you want to know more about the details of policy and would like to receive this regularly via email, you can sign up for it (and [...]

Liberty Harbor Townhomes in Jersey City Originally uploaded by Hoboken Condos

Facing budget shortfalls, Washington, D.C. is making cuts to homeless services to the tune of some $20 million. But the District isn’t alone in either the problem or the solution — San Fransisco is also reducing shelter and employment service funding by nearly $3 [...]

New Jersey has an awful lot of titles to its name, despite being small in size. It’s the most densely-populated state, as well as one of the wealthiest. It’s also one of the most-developed states in the nation. As such, residents of New Jersey have tried to tread carefully when it comes to development, with [...]

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We wrote last week about how you should tell your Senator to put more funding for clean transportation in the climate bill.  Here’s a few more details:
Last Wednesday, Senator Barbara Boxer of California and Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts released their version of the climate bill, “The Clean Energy Jobs and American Power [...]

The Boxer-Kerry bill requires states and Metropolitan Planning Organizations to come up with long-range plans for greenhouse gas reductions from transportation, providing funding for planning and strategies that can help them meet their targets. The House bill gave clean transportation only one percent of total revenues, even though transportation is responsible for one-third of our [...]