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President Biden returned to Washington after a summit with Russia's leader. Texas Gov. Abbott wants the state to build its own border wall. And, where things stand after 50 years of the war on drugs.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware about whether lawmakers are getting any closer to landing a bipartisan deal on infrastructure, and other agenda items.

President Biden wants to spend $200 billion renovating old homes or building affordable new ones. It's a move that would fight climate change in a way that makes people's lives better.

Virginia Biggar reports from Los Angeles on a debate over the last remaining wild area of west L.A. Home to migrating birds as well as the hangars where Howard Hughes built the Spruce Goose, at one time the world's largest plane. The land is to become the newest movie studio for Steven Spielberg's new company, Dreamworks. Environmentalists object, as do some who object to the $70 million in tax breaks the company got.

NPR's Dan Charles reports that researchers have developed an 'artificial nose' that can distinguish different smells using optical sensors. The device may be more sensitive than other attempts to mimic the olfactory sense, and may be useful for environmental and medical purposes. But it's still far less sensitive than the human nose.

Commentator Frosty Troy says States Rights cry from Washington is being played out in Oklahoma...with some strange consequences. It took on the issue of bear wrestling, cut money to the department of Environmental Quality, cut welfare funding...he says it wasn't new federealism, but vintage REpublican politics.

Commentator John Chambers wants to highlight what he says is a rare occurrence in Washington: a genuine joint effort by the EPA, Congress, and the Clinton Administration to help clean up brownfields. Brownfields are abandoned industrial sites which have been devastated by the environmental impact of industry. These blighted areas, which are often in inner cities, may now be cleaned up due to a major new initiative designed to bring brownfields back to life.

NPR's Mary Kay Magistad reports from Hong Kong on environmentalists attempt to save the pink dolphin, which they say make up a unique subspecies. The dolphins, which are falling victim to construction of a new airport, may get their own sanctuary... if the government acts before they all die off.

For years, ranchers and environmentalists have locked horns over who gets to use the land and how. But many on each side are getting tired of all the fighting and now, as Sandy Tolan reports, they're starting to work and even manage the land togther.

in damage, this winter's floods out west have restarted the debate between environmentalists and the construction industry. To accommodate a population boom in California, people are building houses everywhere...in many places they shouldn't be...on fault lines, in flood plains and on hill sides.