Highways are not great for the planet. Their smooth, wide, inviting lanes have helped make transportation the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the US, responsible for 29 percent of the ...

How did highway construction damage cities? The interstate system — largely built between the 1950s and 1970s — helped move Americans in large numbers and at high speeds, but its creation required a ...

An accident-prone stretch of road will start receiving improvements next week as construction begins on Highway 99 at Highway 113, the location of at least one vehicle-related death and several ...

When Interstate 244 rammed through Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood in the 1970s, the community had already experienced the wrath of racism. In 1921, a white mob had unleashed horrific violence against ...

Funding Colorado highways, the maintenance of the existing highways and the building of new highways to satisfy the demands created by more people, and the funding of capital construction projects and ...

From Other Nonprofit Media showcases select work from other nonprofit news sites around the nation. A coalition of labor and environmental groups is putting its support behind perennial Minnesota ...