Following a summer filled with devastating hurricanes in the South, deadly flooding in the Northeast and raging wildfires in the West, it’s clearer than ever that we need to do everything in our power to fight climate change.
This week we’re joined by Dr. V. Kelly Turner, director of urban environment research at UCLA’s Luskin Center for Innovation, to talk about how to think differently about urban heat, how to measure it properly, and how to regulate it.
The latest version of a multistate plan to lower transportation emissions represents an improvement, but still doesn't go far enough on environmental-justice issues, some advocates say.