Despite a long history of unfulfilled promises of change, American Indians see possibility of greater recognition and reform starting with the transition team.

EPA watchers predict the agency will get tougher under Obama, but in order to push through environmental reforms, the changes will need to be pegged to economic stimulus.

The collapse of the Interstate 35W Bridge in Minneapolis in August 2007 revealed an ugly truth about America’s infrastructure. The wreckage strewn across the Mississippi River gave urgency to a problem that was created through years of neglect, that allowed the slow and steady, creeping deterioration of the nation’s roads, highways, bridges and tunnels.