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Boston announced last week that it has completed the nation’s largest single installation of green roofs on bus shelters. As part of a three-year demonstration project, the city put green roofs on 30 bus shelters to capture more stormwater, increase biodiversity, provide shade and improve air quality. #greenroofs
Green roofs on bus shelters are Boston’s latest climate resilience move
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Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk revealed a two-seat driverless “Cybercab” and a 20-seat “Robovan” at an event last night at the Warner Bros. studio in Burbank, California, anticipating production of the #robotaxi starting before 2027 with a price tag for the smaller vehicle of under $30,000. However, AMCI Global experts who tested a 2024 model year Tesla Model 3 running its supervised “full self-driving” software in real-world conditions said yesterday that “it falls well short of any true autonomy in the real world.” Despite the name, the full self-driving feature requires a fully attentive driver, according to Tesla.
Tesla promises driverless robotaxi by 2027
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Hurricane Helene illustrates how communities and infrastructure across the U.S. are unprepared for the extreme weather driven by climate change. “Extreme weather events and 500-year floods are increasing in regularity and our aging infrastructure systems were not built to withstand storms of this magnitude," said Marsia Geldert-Murphey, president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, in a news release. #hurricanehelene
Helene deals billions in damage to infrastructure
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For transit agencies transitioning to battery-electric or hydrogen fuel cell buses, there are many pitfalls along the road and many lessons to be learned, participants said at a panel at an American Public Transportation Association conference in Anaheim, California. “This is every agency’s space program,” said one panelist. #publictransit #cleanbus
Zero-emission bus transition: Lessons from the front lines
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An Oregon county is suing its state’s largest gas utility for allegedly deceiving the public about the #climatechange impacts of burning #fossilfuels. The county hopes to recover more than $51 billion to prevent, mitigate and adapt to climate change impacts it says the defendants have substantially contributed to. Climate advocates say this is the first time a U.S. community has named a gas utility in a climate accountability lawsuit.
Gas utility faces climate deception lawsuit by Oregon county
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California Gov Gavin Newsom on Sept. 27 vetoed a bill designed to speed up the process of converting commercial buildings into residential and mixed-use developments in California, raising questions about the viability of adaptive reuse projects in the state.
Why California’s governor shot down a bill aimed at ramping up adaptive reuse projects
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A group of federal lawmakers introduced a bill last month to expand the number of communities that can access federal relief funds in the wake of natural disasters. The RIDER Act would modify FEMA’s definition of a “major disaster” to include cumulative impacts of #disasters over a yearlong period, even if none individually meet the threshold for federal relief, and would also allow communities contiguous to an area hit by a presidentially declared major disaster to access federal relief funds, even if they aren’t in the same state where the disaster was declared.
Bill aims to help disaster-struck communities excluded from federal relief
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Presidential administrations influence which transportation projects get funded by the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) discretionary grants and its predecessor programs, finds Urban Institute research published Wednesday. "The president actually has substantial discretion over a lot of these programs,” said Yonah Freemark, an author of the report.
How the White House influences transportation grantmaking
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The #Biden administration issued a final rule Tuesday requiring drinking water systems across the country to identify and replace lead pipes within 10 years, according to a news release from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The effort will cost tens of billions of dollars, according to The Washington Post.
EPA requires lead pipes to be replaced nationwide within 10 years
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