Why Is It So Expensive To Build Things In America? (Forbes )

Developers Know How to Dodge Environmental Reviews; Now They Might Have Help From the Federal Government (Inside Sources)

National Environmental Policy Act - Counsel on Environmental Quality Proposed Rule Revisions: Examples of Opponent/Proponent Comments (JD Supra)

Infrastructure spending as an economic stimulus requires a NEPA fix, too (The Hill)

Coronavirus forces changes in forest plan public meeting schedule (Carolina Public Press)

California Environmental Bills for 2020 (National Resources Defense Council )

DC-area leaders concerned about auto pollution post-coronavirus crisis (WTOP Radio)

AASHTO Seeks Elimination of Temporary Discharge Rule (AASHTO Journal )

$1M awarded to wetlands restoration project on Chicago’s Southeast Side (Chicago Sun-Times)

NRCS accepting applications for Conservation Easement Program (North Texas e-news)

Coronavirus Creating Solar Industry 'Crisis': U.S. Trade Group (Reuters)

Historic Preservation Myths: It Cost Too Much (Adirondack Almanack)

A Plan to Develop Farmland in Amish Country Meets Resistance (The New York Times)

Historic homes in Philly can now add garage or basement apartments (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

AASHTO Backs Effort to Advance Pollinator Habitat Creation (AASHTO Journal)

Prescribed fire benefits landowners, ecosystems (Lincoln Journal Star)

Rocky Mountain animals will move as the climate changes. These corridors could give them a safer path. (The Washington Post)

Fire, Forests, and Our Lands: An Indigenous Ecological Perspective (Nonprofit Quarterly )

Government bemoans lack of environmental expertise in justice system (The Jakarta Post )

DEC and NYSERDA Announce $24 Million in Volkswagen Settlement Funds to Support All-Electric Transit Buses in Environmental Justice Communities (New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (press release))

Social Distancing? You Might Be Fighting Climate Change, Too (The New York Times)

Stefanik introduces bipartisan bill to promote use of native plant materials (The Ripon Advance)

California's strict air quality regulations help farmers prosper, study finds (University of California, Irvine)

Why cutting car and truck emissions is so hard (Boston.com)

Do urban speed limit reductions improve air quality? Experts say not so fast (Energy News Network)

As Amazon speeds up, a warehouse community braces for a deadly combo: air pollution and coronavirus (Grist)

Air Force base decision raises F-35A noise debate in Tucson (The Brownsville Herald)

Coronavirus Forces Us To Rethink Infrastructure For An Age Of Biological Risk (Forbes)

More Than $43 Million in Coastal Resilience Grants Announced for Communities Devastated by 2018 Natural Disasters (Yahoo Finance)

Mississippi Mayors Push for Flood Resilience (ENR Midwest)

Maine voters will decide two bond measures, totaling $120 million, on June 9 (Ballotpedia)

How Power and Gas Utilities Keep Energy Flowing in the Pandemic (Bloomberg Green)

Georgia DOT recognized for making transportation more human (Transportation Today)

Lime is yanking its electric scooters from California and Washington due to coronavirus (Verge.com)

San Mateo County Active Transportation Plan Draft Recommendations Now Online (Streetsblog SF)

Coastal NC to get environmental grants (The Daily News (Jacksonville, NC))

DOT holds first GPS backup technology demonstration (GPS World )

U.S. government, tech industry discussing ways to use smartphone location data to combat coronavirus (The Washington Post)

2020 Conference on Sustainability and Emerging Transportation Technologies (Transportation Research Board (Call for abstracts))

TRB Webinar: What role does ecology have in sustainable transportation? (Transportation Research Board (Webinar Announcement))

TRB Webinar: Sustainable highway construction (Transportation Research Board (Webinar Announcement))

Florida, Utah, Washington approve bills to boost EVs, including $50M Rocky Mountain Power charging plan (Utility Dive)

California should reset its ambition and unleash the next wave of clean energy to combat climate change ( CalMatters)

He Set Up a Big Solar Farm. His Neighbors Hated It. (The New York Times)

Pittsburgh recycling startup includes Phoenix in its expansion plans (Phoenix Business Journal)

Delaware solid waste center makes changes ((Delaware County, NY) - The Daily Star (Oneonta, NY))

31 years on, hazardous waste pact needs improving ((Basel Convention) - Anadolu Agency (Turkey))