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It was long thought that a finite supply of lithium, a key element needed for electric vehicle batteries, would constrain the production of zero-emission vehicles, but the opposite happened: a slow down in EV demand has caused lithium prices to drop.

September 7 - Oil Price

Seventy percent of the surface of New York City is impervious. A program with a goal to build a total of 9,000 curbside rain gardens will put a dent in the hardscape.

September 6 - Real Estate Weeky

The paper of record in a Texas oil town is a surprising place to find an article singing the praises of a society built on public transit instead of the automobile.

September 6 - Houston Chronicle

Ridership on the TANK bus service has sunk in recent years. Hope for a turnaround ride on a redesign.

September 6 - Cincinnati Enquirer

A humorous post offers advice on how to adjust to life trapped in a sea of cars swelled by school pick-up and drop-off schedules: think of it as "me time."

September 6 - The Dallas Morning News

The Vision 2050 plan, which charts the growth for King, Pierce, Snohomish, and Kitsap counties in Washington State, would focus almost all the growth meant to accommodate 1.8 million new residents inside urban areas.

September 6 - The Urbanist

Capital investments could get more expensive, if Congress forces transit systems to buy American.

September 6 - Eno Center for Transportation

New research using the Terner Center California Residential Land Use Survey also connects demographic trends to housing development opposition.

September 6 - Terner Center for Housing Innovation

The City Council of Durham, North Carolina has approved changes to the city's master plan, first approved in 2005, to allow new forms of density in residential neighborhoods proximate to the city's downtown urban core.

September 6 - News & Observer

The eyes have it.

September 6 - Fox Denver

A rational consumer might have anticipated the anxieties brought on by such small, expensive portable devices. Now the public is paying the price in the.

September 6 - Gothamist

The Clark County Commission is extending a sales tax, created in 1998, which could have drawn to a close after raising $2.3 billion or the year 2025, whichever came first. The tax will remain in place indefinitely.

September 5 - Las Vegas Sun

Charles Loveman, executive director of Heritage Housing Partners, explains the historical role that subsidized demand played in spurring housing production and the value of low to moderate-income affordable homeownership development.

September 5 - The Planning Report

Vistra Energy is closing coal power plants in Illinois, each of which employs between 60 to 90 workers.

September 5 - NBC

Northern San Joaquin Valley transit officials are eying a $100 billion Bay Area transportation measure to potentially fund a $1 billion rail tunnel for two commuter railroads to bring workers to the East Bay and Silicon Valley.

September 5 - The Sacramento Bee

The idea of cities as components of larger megaregions has lost some of its popularity, Alon Levy looks at regions around the world to try to understand how useful the concept is in understanding cities and regions.

September 5 - Pedestrian Observations

The United States is still mostly populated by white people, but there are plenty of places where that is no longer true.

September 5 - Pew Research Center

Dutch design firm West 8 recently won a competition to rethink an 11-mile stretch of the Baltimore's waterfront, not to be confused with a $5.5 billion project to redevelop Port Covington.

September 5 - Next City

Hurricane Dorian wreaked havoc on the Bahamas for several days before turning toward the Southeastern United States.

September 5 - Vox

Critics of the earliest Democratic candidate debates have noted a conspicuous lack of substantive and concentrated discussion on one of the great existential threats of the era: climate change. Neglect of the subject could change soon.

September 5 - Curbed