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Inside the fight for environmental justice on a once-bustling Black New Orleans business corridor scarred by a dangerous highway overpass.

In urban neighborhoods — especially Black ones — land once set aside for homes was decimated for car drivers.

America has poured enough asphalt to build its sprawling auto-centric road network to cover the entire nation of the Netherlands.

States already have the money to retrofit their "orphan highways" to be safer for people outside cars — if they'd just put it to good use.

Highway expansion projects certainly qualify as projects for public use. But do they deliver a public benefit that justifies taking private property?

"Until we overhaul our transportation system to redirect the majority of funding into community-oriented infrastructure investments, we will keep failing to meet our equity, climate, and maintenance goals."

Highways were convenient tools to rid the cities of perceived social ills, a mindset deeply embedded in white supremacy.

This less-than-pint-sized bird plays a massive role in keeping the Sonoran desert in balance. Now, it could tackle its most fierce opponent yet: the American highway lobby.

A little-known loophole in federal law allows states like Texas to rubber-stamp their own environmental reviews — even when the projects they're reviewing are harmful highway boondoggles.