Category «Housing»

Urban planners hoping to mitigate floods by specifically designing municipalities to soak up water

“After massive flooding in 2011 caused $1.8 billion in damage, Copenhagen began refashioning its infrastructure: It built wetlands and parks, plus underground pipes and basins, to gather and redirect the rainwater. The project is ongoing, but it is already helping the Danish capital withstand torrential rains, and the “sponge city” model is being copied by …

Subjects: Climate Change, Economy, Energy, Environmental Law, Housing

EPA Plans to Revoke Legal Basis for Tackling Climate Change

The New York Times [no paywall]: “Lee Zeldin, the Environmental Protection Agency’s administrator, said the agency would rescind a 2009 declaration, which concluded that planet-warming greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and underpins the government’s legal authority to combat climate change. Speaking on a conservative podcast called “Ruthless,” Mr. Zeldin said the E.P.A. …

Subjects: Censorship, Climate Change, Economy, Environmental Law, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Housing, Legal Research

DOGE’s AI tool misreads law, still tasked with deleting half of US regulations

TechSpot – “Plan demands deletion of 100,000 regulations, projecting $1.5 trillion in savings by 2026 A hot potato: Elon Musk may have long departed the Department of Government Efficiency, but DOGE is still causing controversy. A new report claims that the agency is using a new artificial intelligence tool to create a list of federal …

Subjects: Censorship, E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Housing, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Climate.gov Didn’t Fit Trump’s “Gold Standard”

SciLight – Climate.gov Didn’t Fit Trump’s “Gold Standard.” Dismantling climate.gov is not an accident; it is a blueprint. Jacob Carter. Well, I didn’t expect confirmation so soon, but we now know how this administration will be using the “gold standard science” executive order (EO) and the subsequent OSTP guidance: to undo science that is politically …

Subjects: Censorship, Climate Change, E-Government, E-Records, Economy, Education, Environmental Law, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Housing, Legal Research, Search Engines, Transportation

Trump Administration Continues Scrubbing Statistics and Disappearing Data

Via LLRX – Trump Administration Continues Scrubbing Statistics and Disappearing Data – What is the status of the official data published by U.S. federal statistical agencies? As the current administration continues its disassembling of huge swaths of the federal government, not only are the workers and services gone, so of course is much of the data …

Subjects: Censorship, Climate Change, E-Government, E-Records, Economy, Education, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Health Care, Housing, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Medicine

Visualizing Sinking Cities

Center for Data Innovation: “Researchers from Columbia University, the University of California Irvine, and Virginia Tech have created a series of maps using satellite-based observations to show land subsidence—the gradual sinking of land—across the 28 most populous U.S. cities.This sinking is caused by both natural and human-driven factors, including groundwater extraction, heavy infrastructure, and sea-level …

Subjects: Climate Change, Economy, Environmental Law, Housing

The Tracking Gov Info Project

The Tracking Gov Info Project is a crowdsourcing effort to track removed and modified government information and resources. Although the news media have widely reported the current U.S. administration’s removal and modification of federal websites and information, it can be challenging to understand and analyze the scope of the problem without a central list tracking …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Climate Change, E-Records, Economy, Education, Energy, Environmental Law, Financial System, Food and Nutrition, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Health Care, HIV/AIDS, Housing, Legal Research, Medicine

Most Americans don’t earn enough to afford basic costs of living

CBS News: “The gap between what Americans earn and how much they need to bring in to achieve a basic standard of living is growing, according to a new report. The analysis, from the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity (LISEP), looks beyond whether people can afford daily necessities like food and shelter to consider …

Subjects: Economy, Food and Nutrition, Health Care, Housing, Medicine, Poverty

Artificial Intelligence 2025 Legislation

NCLS – Artificial Intelligence 2025 Legislation Updated March 22, 2025 – “AI—the use of computer systems to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as learning and decision-making—has the potential to spur innovation and transform industry and government. As AI advances and widespread adoption of these tools increase,  government, business and the public are …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Education, Health Care, Housing, Internet, Legal Research, Legislation, Privacy

American Panopticon – The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans

The Atlantic – no paywall: Experts fear what comes next. “If you were tasked with building a panopticon, your design might look a lot like the information stores of the U.S. federal government—a collection of large, complex agencies, each making use of enormous volumes of data provided by or collected from citizens. The federal government …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Food and Nutrition, Government Documents, Housing, Legal Research, Privacy