Environmental News Highlights – April 29, 2020

INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY

Wood energy as a climate change solution (The Hill (Opinion))

Using Millions of Maggots to Slow Down Climate Change (Bloomberg Green (Subscription Required))

New Systems of Governance Are Needed to Address Climate Change (Government Executive)

The Health Emergency That’s Coming to West Louisville (CityLab (Commentary) (Kentucky))

Ann Arbor council not ready to adopt A2Zero carbon-neutrality plan (MLive.com (Michigan) )

Without fanfare, Houston unveils Climate Action Plan, shooting for carbon neutrality by 2050 (Houston Chronicle (Subscription Required (Texas)))

State: Climate change to impact infrastructure, livestock, water (GoErie.com (Pennsylvania))

Bold investments in clean energy and transportation infrastructure will help lead us out of a recession (CalMatters (Commentary) (California))

Senate Committee Bills Would Steer Billions To Water Infrastructure (Waterways Journal)

Florida’s climate change efforts ‘disjointed,’ former state resilience officer found (Tampa Bay Times (Florida))

Sunrise GW signs Earth Day letter supporting path to cut D.C. greenhouse gas emissions (The GW Hatchet (District of Columbia))

In the ‘climate refuge’ city of Duluth, a fight brews over the hometown utility (MinnPost (Minnesota))

50 years later, Earth Day’s unsolved problem: How to build a more sustainable world (MSN)

50 Years of Earth Day: What’s Better Today, and What’s Worse (New York Times (Subscription Required))

ASU achieves carbon neutrality, ranked among most sustainable universities in the world (ASU Now (Arizona))

Earth Day 2020: Corvias Partnerships Supports Resiliency, Sustainability and Energy Independence (Olean Times Herald (Subscription Required))

HEALTH AND HUMAN ENVIRONMENT/ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION

TAAR helps fund Norte program (Traverse City Record-Eagle (Michigan))

Billings trails connecting community to outdoors in time of pandemic (Billings Gazette (Montana) )

SF Opens Select Streets to Pedestrians, Bicyclists Amid Pandemic (KNTV-TV video (California) )

Could better measures mean better management for urban micro-mobility options? (Mass Transit)

Connecticut DOT Marks Earth Day 2020 (The Newtown Bee (Connecticut))

WATER QUALITY/WETLANDS

Establishing a statewide water quality database (High Plains Journal (Kansas) (Subscription Required))

New Opportunity: Prairie Pothole Water Quality and Wildlife Program (NewsDakota.com (North Dakota))

WILDLIFE & ECOSYSTEMS

Fresh Forest Regrowth May Offset Climate Hit From Australia Fires (Bloomberg Green (Subscription Required))

Lake Elsinore at highest level since 2012 after rising 6 feet (The Press-Enterprise (California))