EPA recedntly released its most comprehensive
review to date on how the built environment – the way we build our
cities and towns – directly affects our environment and public health.
The report was announced by EPA Acting Administrator Bob Perciasepe
during a national Twitter Town Hall meeting in Washington, DC with
Maurice Jones, Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing, and
Development (HUD), and John Porcari, Deputy Secretary of the U.S.
Department of Transportation (DOT) to commemorate the fourth anniversary
of the HUD-DOT-EPA Partnership for Sustainable Communities.
The publication, Our
Built and Natural Environments: A Technical Review of the Interactions
among Land Use, Transportation, and Environmental Quality,
provides evidence that certain kinds of land use and transportation
strategies – where and how we build our communities – can reduce the
environmental and human health impacts of development.
“Although findings might differ on
the magnitude of the effects of different practices, the evidence is
overwhelming that some types of development yield better environmental
results than others,” the report concludes.
The publication is important and
timely for understanding the most environmentally responsible way to
develop as our nation’s population grows over the next half century and
beyond.
Read the press release.
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