107 articles by Ysabelle Kempe

• HUD announces new building decarbonization efforts at COP28

  Dec. 7, 2023

• Cooling cities while reducing emissions: 3 takeaways from UN report

  Dec. 6, 2023

• Which housing policies do Americans really want in their cities and states?

  Dec. 4, 2023

• ‘COP28 must be the COP of cities’: Local leaders want fossil fuel phaseout, collaboration

  Dec. 1, 2023

• 4 US cities pledge to combat water woes driven by climate change

  Nov. 28, 2023

• How 7 cities transformed asphalt with art in 2023: photos

  Nov. 27, 2023

• EPA announces $2B for local environmental justice projects

  Nov. 22, 2023

• Plans to get an entire block off the natural gas system take shape in one California city

  Nov. 20, 2023

• Boston ends efforts to ban fossil fuels in new buildings through state program

  Nov. 15, 2023

• Biden announces $6B for climate resilience as report warns of ‘insufficient’ adaptation

  Nov. 14, 2023

• Meet Houston’s first emergency preparedness manager for vulnerable communities

  Nov. 10, 2023

• Lack of funding still stands in the way of California’s local climate policy

  Nov. 9, 2023

• NYC wants a ‘blue highway’ on its waterways

  Nov. 7, 2023

• EPA kicks off effort to help communities use climate, environmental justice funds

  Nov. 2, 2023

• How cities can decarbonize delivery in the era of online orders

  Nov. 1, 2023

• White House advances office-to-residential conversions with new resources

  Oct. 30, 2023

• Los Angeles region to accelerate clean energy efforts in run-up to 2028 Olympics

  Oct. 26, 2023

• 31 ‘tech hubs’ unveiled by Biden administration

  Oct. 24, 2023

• What isn’t in the White House’s climate resilience plan

  Oct. 23, 2023

• 8 cities to install public art projects with Bloomberg Philanthropies grants

  Oct. 20, 2023

• NYC plans greenway expansion amid concern about cycling deaths

  Oct. 18, 2023

• Why Los Angeles’ climate plan has ‘outlived its usefulness’: city controller

  Oct. 16, 2023

• FEMA makes ‘key changes’ to $1.8B climate resilience grant programs

  Oct. 13, 2023

• NYC launches ‘smart city testbed’: Here are the first 3 pilot technologies

  Oct. 12, 2023

• New alliance aims to turn this Rust Belt city into a ‘Green Belt’ hub

  Oct. 10, 2023

• Notable 2024 conferences for smart city leaders

  Oct. 9, 2023

• What are the ‘greenest’ US cities?

  Oct. 6, 2023

• NYC’s ‘mass timber studio’ aims to warm builders up to the material

  Oct. 4, 2023

• National Weather Service rolls out flood forecast maps

  Oct. 3, 2023

• National climate resilience plan unveiled by Biden administration

  Sept. 29, 2023

• Governments can cut buildings’ embodied carbon with new policies, reports say

  Sept. 28, 2023

• FEMA climate resilience grants unevenly distributed among communities

  Sept. 27, 2023

• Bracing for rising seas, a Hawai’i county makes builders prep for year 2100

  Sept. 26, 2023

• Boston launches pilot to help small housing owners go electric

  Sept. 22, 2023

• $4.6B for climate action plan implementation available from EPA

  Sept. 20, 2023

• Local leaders to have formal role in COP28 for the first time

  Sept. 20, 2023

• 10 stories from the Earth’s hottest summer on record

  Sept. 18, 2023

• Forest Service unveils 385 urban forestry projects to get over $1B in grants

  Sept. 15, 2023

• Extreme heat disproportionately threatens Black renters, experts say

  Sept. 13, 2023

• California must ban gas in new buildings, local officials tell governor

  Sept. 11, 2023

• EPA seeks advisers on ‘critical’ local government issues

  Sept. 8, 2023

• FEMA selects ‘disaster resilience zones’ to get priority access to federal funds

  Sept. 7, 2023

• Cool pavement covers this LA neighborhood. Does it make a difference?

  Sept. 5, 2023

• EPA awards climate planning grants to New England cities, states

  Sept. 1, 2023

• Heat-related illness: New federal tool reveals highest-risk communities

  Aug. 31, 2023

• Seattle’s downtown revitalization push continues with waterfront parks overhaul

  Aug. 29, 2023

• On clean energy tax credits, mayors want clearer federal guidance

  Aug. 28, 2023

• 4 communities to build anti-racist data ecosystems with $5M from foundations

  Aug. 23, 2023

• Tropical Storm Hilary: How California cities prepared and fared

  Aug. 22, 2023

• What managed retreat around the world can teach US cities

  Aug. 21, 2023

• For emergency preparedness, Houston looks to teens

  Aug. 18, 2023

• Boston grants aim to lower carbon footprint of affordable housing

  Aug. 16, 2023

• Extreme heat causing ‘preventable’ deaths in US cities, scientists say

  Aug. 15, 2023

• Persistent urban air pollution the focus of ‘unprecedented’ NASA, NOAA research

  Aug. 11, 2023

• For urban cooling, forests beat street trees, landscaped parks: study

  Aug. 9, 2023

• Washington building codes lawsuit dropped by gas, building groups

  Aug. 8, 2023

• Tucson, Arizona, gears up climate action as city faces extreme weather

  Aug. 2, 2023

• Extreme heat merits federal major disaster status, local leaders say

  Aug. 1, 2023

• Cities can afford more climate projects with new tax incentives: report

  July 25, 2023

• These 5 cities aim to cool down by scaling up ‘smart surfaces’ in coming years

  July 24, 2023

• Bezos fund commits $400M for urban green space, with initial $50M for 5 cities

  July 20, 2023

• Green ‘rebirth’ could be in store for smaller industrial cities across US

  July 18, 2023

• $90M for greener building energy codes awarded by DOE

  July 14, 2023

• Extreme heat: What federal officials want cities to know

  July 13, 2023

• ‘Amazingly high’ air pollution near Houston chemical plants gets EPA monitoring support

  July 12, 2023

• Solar-powered ‘microgrids’ coming to San Diego public buildings as first of 8 projects breaks ground

  July 11, 2023

• As billion-dollar disasters increase, FEMA evolves to keep up

  July 6, 2023

• Wildfires that burn buildings and vehicles may produce more toxic smoke than those in the wilderness

  July 5, 2023

• Massachusetts city mandates net-zero emissions for some large buildings by 2035

  June 30, 2023

• ‘Dead trees all over the city’: Where tree-planting efforts go wrong

  June 27, 2023

• Over 100K contaminated sites may be threatened by rising groundwater, researchers warn

  June 26, 2023

• Phoenix water conservation policy targets future development

  June 23, 2023

• To build climate resilience, NOAA announces $575M for coastal, Great Lakes communities

  June 20, 2023

• Extreme heat is changing the structure of local governance

  June 16, 2023

• To reduce carbon footprint of existing buildings, Seattle proposes new standards

  June 15, 2023

• California’s urban roofs provide more value for community solar+storage than rural areas: report

  June 13, 2023

• When climate disasters strike, how can cities evacuate people who don’t have cars?

  June 12, 2023

• Deadly winter storm caught Buffalo, New York, on its heels, but city can do better next time: report

  June 9, 2023

• ‘Street crisis team’ aims to curb police involvement in homelessness response in San Francisco

  June 7, 2023

• Building performance standards becoming key climate policy in US cities: report

  June 6, 2023

• Urban agriculture offers food, climate, cooling benefits — and can pay for itself: report

  June 2, 2023

• Wildfire ‘smelling sensors’ could help first responders protect at-risk communities

  June 1, 2023

• Without chief heat officers, how can smaller cities respond to extreme heat?

  May 31, 2023

• Greenhouse gas emissions tracking project addresses ‘flawed’ approach cities use now, researchers say

  May 26, 2023

• NYC region faces significant health inequities: report

  May 24, 2023

• The ‘infrastructure decade’ is here, but challenges loom for local governments at the helm

  May 23, 2023

• In San Jose, city climate plans must have ‘the cool factor’

  May 22, 2023

• Feds to give ‘first-of-its-kind’ homelessness support to California and 5 cities

  May 19, 2023

• Los Angeles mayor announces next steps in plan to build shelters, housing on city properties

  May 18, 2023

• Why Boston is turning bus stops into digital pop-up libraries

  May 16, 2023

• A ‘tech hub’ in your city? Commerce Department launches application process for $500M in grants

  May 15, 2023

• Chicago environmental justice order signed as mayor’s term ends

  May 12, 2023

• To spur green manufacturing and jobs, will NYC change its industrial zoning?

  May 11, 2023

• To build climate resilience, Detroit communities turn to long-neglected alleys

  May 9, 2023

• As sea levels rise, it’s time for West Coast communities to overcome ‘taboo of managed retreat’: report

  May 8, 2023

• To spur geothermal heating and cooling, DOE funds 11 community-scale system design projects

  May 3, 2023

• Affordable, all-electric and energy-efficient housing gets $15M boost from NYC initiative

  May 2, 2023

• First state law banning gas in new buildings likely to pass in New York

  April 28, 2023

• Worried about gas ban litigation? After court tosses Berkeley rule, legal experts look at cities’ options

  April 27, 2023

• Fight or adapt to climate change? It’s ‘a false trade-off’ for cities, climate experts say

  April 24, 2023

• Air quality disparity between Eastern and Western states grows as climate change undermines progress: report

  April 19, 2023

• An ‘early warning system’ for urban drought is this research team’s goal

  April 18, 2023

• In fast-growing cities, land-use reform could decrease climate pollution, provide housing: report

  April 14, 2023

• Google’s free tree canopy tool now covers hundreds more cities. Here’s how early adopters are using it.

  April 13, 2023

• Low-carbon materials eligible for climate resilience, disaster recovery funding: FEMA

  April 11, 2023

• What will it take to build sustainable cities? Public officials, experts weigh in

  April 10, 2023

• To prevent housing displacement, Austin, Texas, wants to pay neighbors to help neighbors

  April 6, 2023