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Members of the Harlem community are decrying a developer's plan to build a controversial truck depot, warning that the decision to put profit over people’s health will send more pollution-spewing big rigs into the low-income community of color and worsen the environmental injustice already borne by the neighborhood.

The city's outdated zoning code must be amended to give regulators the teeth they need to rein in “last-mile” distribution facilities that are popping up in low-income communities of color, environmental justice groups said as they filed a zoning proposal.

Gotham Gazette talked recently with Cecil Corbin-Mark, of West Harlem Environmental Action (WE ACT), about environmental justice in Upper Manhattan.

Intro 1396 would force Amazon and other delivery companies that use last-mile warehouses to ditch the sub-contracting model and directly hire their workers.

"New Jersey’s claim that it was deprived of adequate opportunities to consult on the project is revisionist history," the MTA's attorneys wrote.

Biden made a campaign promise to direct “at least 40 percent of the overall benefits from federal investments in climate and clean energy to disadvantaged communities.” Here's how DOT will do it.

New Yorkers don’t need lofty essays that make congestion pricing an object lesson in environmental process gone wrong.

Advocates have not heard from the MTA about congestion pricing, even though the authority must include environmental justice in its assessment of the tolls — and the federal government is waiting for action.

The CPW and 14th lawsuits aim to vex, trouble, and delay traffic improvements. How we can stop them?

Supporters of congestion pricing rallied Monday at Broadway Junction in Brooklyn.