Chloe Ahmann, a historical and environmental anthropologist whose work focuses on Baltimore, industrialism and environmental justice, comments on Baltimore's role as a major coal exporter and argues that recovery from the Key Bridge collapse represents a time to listen to residents impacted by coal shipping.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Arts and Sciences

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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has given final approval to a congestion pricing plan to toll vehicles entering part of Manhattan, even as the plan faces pending lawsuits and some concerns from New York City’s mayor.

New York City

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Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed early Tuesday morning after a support column was struck by a container ship. The collision sent at least seven cars into the Patapsco River.

Law, Government & Public Policy

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Shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Texas law S.B. 4 to take effect while legal challenges continue, a federal appeals court blocked the state from making it a state crime for migrants to illegally cross the border into Texas, a move which would prevent Texas from having the U.S. violate duties to scores of other countries says Cornell Law professor Ian Kysel. 

Law and Policy

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Shannon Gleeson is a professor in Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations and says the court’s decision hinges not only on the question of who holds authority over immigration regulation, but also how far states should be allowed to go in encroaching on the fundamental rights of migrants.

Industrial and Labor Relations

Law, Government & Public Policy

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The Supreme Court appears likely to reject an effort to limit the federal government from pressuring social media companies to remove harmful posts and misinformation on platforms.

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Jacob Anbinder, a Klarman postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University, researches how America’s most progressive cities become unaffordable for a significant portion of the population and the housing politics of prosperous metro areas. He says New York has a fundamental housing need: new homes now.

New York State

New York City

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Michael Hoffmann, professor emeritus at Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and lead author of Our Changing menu: Climate change and the foods we love and need, comments on the climate stresses facing cacao and chocolate production.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

International

Economics and Business

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Jesse LeCavalier, an expert in infrastructure planning and a professor of architecture, Paul Mutolo, a chemist and director of External Partnerships for the Energy Materials Center, Rick Geddes, professor of policy analysis and management and founding director of the Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy and Art Wheaton, an expert on transportation industries and director of labor studies, comment on the Biden administration's new infrastructure plan for electric trucks.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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Allison Koenecke, assistant professor of information science at Cornell University, studies fairness in algorithmic systems and says this is a good first step.