Lawmakers and Airports Look to Remove Passenger Facility Charge Cap Earlier this week Representatives Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), ranking member on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.)…
Cross-Border Sewage Spill Contaminates San Diego Beaches Over the course of 18 days in February, more than 143 million gallons of raw sewage from the Tijuana River…
Bird Flu Epidemic Fatal in China The recent global bird flu outbreaks have resulted in at least 460 confirmed human cases of the H7N9 strain in…
GRI’s Dr. Flynn Appears on CNN to Discuss Proposed Coast Guard Budget Cuts Dr. Stephen Flynn, Global Resilience Institute Director, appeared on CNN on March 7th to discuss the proposed cuts to the…
Contaminated Tap Water Affecting Hundreds of Thousands of Californians According to recently released data from California’s Water Resource Board, approximately 700,000 California residents are being exposed to contaminated tap…
Deadly Landslide at Landfill in Ethiopia On Saturday, 11 March 2017, a massive landslide occurred at the Koshe landfill on the edge of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s…
Late Winter Storms Hit the Northeast, Threaten Economy On March 14th, the Northeast U.S. was hit by a late winter storm, Stella, that brought sleet and snow to…
Record El Niño Storm Devastates Peru During the weekend of March 17th to March 19th, a record setting El Niño delivered “10 times more rainfall" than…
The Trump Administration’s Electronics Ban Raises More Questions Than Answers On March 21, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that it intended to ban all carry-on electronic devices larger…
America’s Almost Failing “Infrastructure Report Card” In the latest Infrastructure Report Card produced by the American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE), The state of America's infrastructure…
Attack Outside the London House of Parliament On March 22, Khalid Masood attacked the House of Parliament in London. He began his attack by driving his car…
Settlement to Replace Flint’s Water Lines Under a settlement announced Monday, 27 March, Michigan will spend an additional $47 million to resolve the Flint water crisis,…
