The destruction of Dorr Street in Toledo, Ohio isn’t just a story of physical destruction; it’s about the dismantling of crucial social infrastructure that once allowed residents to communicate, ...
Including nuclear power, over ten gigawatts of new power capacity went online in the second quarter of 2024 and most of this capacity was renewable. Excluding the nuclear outlier, 80 percent of new ...
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 08, 2024) – Ron Knox, senior researcher and policy advocate at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), issued the following statement on the news that a federal judge ...
Toledo’s Dorr Street bears the deep scars of federal policies that stripped away Black economic power and prosperity. Once a thriving center of Black business, Dorr Street was decimated by ...
As ILSR continues to support local communities in solving Internet connectivity challenges, the Community Broadband Networks ...
The extraction of sky-high fees from merchants and consumers “should not be the cost of doing business,” says Lauren Gellatly WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 24, 2024) — The Small Business Rising ...
“In addition to raising costs, PBMs have also used their control over prescription benefits to undermine independent pharmacies,” says Stacy Mitchell. WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 24, 2024) — The ...
Vilified as the “robber barons of the 80s,” private equity has reemerged with a vengeance in pursuit of financial transactions that exist out of sight of regulatory scrutiny. These firms have targeted ...
Where are community composters operating? Which cities, counties, and states support a distributed composting infrastructure through their policies and programs? ILSR’s Composting for Community Map ...
Tennessee’s Solid Waste Management Act of 1991 established a $0.90 surcharge on each ton of waste disposed at Class I landfills and incinerators (§68-211-835). The revenue is deposited into the ...