Note: This article updates with new data a piece published in April 2023. Throughout 2022, businesses in California, Illinois, and Oregon—three of the first states to implement statewide automatic ...

Heights Philadelphia, a Pew Fund for Health and Human Services in Philadelphia growth grant recipient and participant in Pew’s Evaluation Capacity Building Initiative, works with low-income students, ...

In growing metropolitan areas such as New York City, suburbs often experience market pressure that leads to housing cost increases. As mayor of New Rochelle, New York, from 2006 to 2023, Noam Bramson ...

After nearly a decade of public outreach, scientific study, and negotiations, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) enhanced protections for more than 13 million acres in central Alaska. The agency ...

WASHINGTON—Indigenous Nations from the Northwest Territories (NWT) of Canada celebrated today the signing of a historic agreement that will provide sustained resources for stewarding their lands and ...

WASHINGTON—The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today that Roger-Mark De Souza will join the organization as vice president, environment, effective Nov. 19, 2024. In this role, De Souza will help shape ...

Beyond 200 nautical miles from the seashore lie the international waters of the high seas global commons covering 45 percent of the Earth’s surface. The time is ripe for a new initiative of great ...

Effectively administering health care programs is a critical element of sound fiscal management for state and local governments. As health care and corrections have emerged in recent years as fiscal ...