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The new NextGen Acela trains promise faster travel and more seats – but arrive as US rail faces an uncertain future

When former President Joe Biden unveiled his US$1.9 trillion infrastructure plan in 2021, he discovered the very best playground to travel nation: Philadelphia’s thirtieth Side road Station rail backyard. Over the din of crackling wires and grumbling engines, the president made his case for revitalizing the rustic’s roads, ports, airports and rail strains. In the […]

How the oil industry and growing political divides turned climate change into a partisan issue

After four years of U.S. progress on efforts to deal with climate change under Joe Biden, Donald Trump’s return to the White House is swiftly swinging the pendulum in the opposite direction. On his first day back, Trump declared a national energy emergency, directing agencies to use any emergency powers available to boost oil and […]