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Recent Internet postings of interest to transportation and environmental professionals.
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AASHTO

• Video Report: Mobility Workshop Explores Bike Transportation (8-7-18)

American Planning Association

• Aug. 15 Webinar: The Changing Stormwater Landscape, Are We Creating Actual Solutions or Expensive Dreams? (8-7-18)

American Public Health Association

• Transportation and Health Stories: Planning with a Public Health Focus- Connecting the Dots in the East Central Region of Wisconsin (8-7-18)
• Transportation and Health Stories: Minnesota Health and Transportation- Partners for Change (8-7-18)

America Walks

• America Walks Identifies Critical Data for Pedestrian Safety around AV Integration (8-8-18)
• Sept. 12 Webinar: Pedestrians Are People Too: The Criminalization of Walking (8-8-18)

Association of State Wetland Managers

• National Coalition Urges Congress to Reject Efforts to Diminish States’ Authority to Manage Water Quality under Section 401 of Clean Water Act (8-9-18)
• ASWM Comments on the Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: “Definition of Waters of the United States” – Recodification of Pre-existing Rule (8-8-18)

Center for Climate and Energy Solutions

• Advancing Climate Action: Local Partnerships, Transformative Solutions, Sept. 11, 2018

Climate Central

• U.S. Faces a Rise in Mosquito ‘Disease Danger Days’ (8-8-18)

Defenders of Wildlife

• Report: Endangered Species Act Recovery Plans Missing, Delayed and Old (8-9-18)

Department of Transportation

• US DOT Connections Blog: CDOT's Central 70 is a Monumental Public-Private Partnership That Will Bring Big Benefits to the Mile High City (8-3-18)
• Secretary Chao renews commitment to U.S. infrastructure with $45 Million INFRA Grant for the LA 23 Belle Chasse Bridge and Tunnel Replacement (8-9-18)

Environmental Council of States

• Iowa First to Assess Conservation in Every Watershed Using LiDAR and Aerial Imagery (8-3-18)
• Minnesota Finalizes NPDES Permit for Construction with 72-Hour Turnaround Time (8-3-18)

Environmental and Energy Study Institute

• Climate Change News - August 6, 2018

Federal Highway Administration

• Orientation Webinars for EDC-5 Innovations, Sept. 10-26
• Human Environment Digest (8-1-18)
• EDC News – Aug. 9, 2018
• Talking Freight: Advancing Clean Air Projects at Ports and Goods Movement Facilities through the CMAQ Program webinar materials (8-1-18)
• Webcast Summary: MBTA LandTracker Application (8-6-18)
• Effects on Intelligent Transportation Systems Planning and Deployment in a Connected Vehicle Environment (July 2018)
• Materials from Midwest AFC Convening - Alternative Fuel Corridors (8-7-18)
• Exploratory Advanced Research Program Fact Sheet: Smart Vehicles, Smart Signals, Smart Cities: How Cyber Physical Systems Can Foster Traffic Synergy (8-7-18)

Federal Transit Administration

• Program Guidance for Metropolitan Planning Program and State Planning and Research Program Grants: Availability of Final Circular (8-9-18)

Fish and Wildlife Service

• Songbirds, Shorebirds and Other Migratory Birds to Benefit from $18 Million in Funding Throughout the Americas (8-8-18)

Forest Service

• State of Alaska, USDA Forest Service begin official work on Alaska Roadless Rule (8-2-18)

Interior Department

• Secretary Zinke Kicks Off National Parks Infrastructure Discussion at Bipartisan Event (8-1-18)

International Transport Forum

• Light Protection of Cycle Lanes: Best Practices Discussion Paper (8-6-18)

League of American Bicyclists

• MUTCD Update from June 2018 Meeting (8-2-18)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• 2017 State of the climate: Sea level (8-1-18)
• July 2018 was 11th warmest July on record for U.S. (8-8-18)
• Ask the scientist: Extreme rainfall, why it happens and how we predict it (8-8-18)

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

• NREL Joins Partners and Peers for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Information Sharing and Review (8-8-18)

National Resources & Technical Assistance for Transit-Oriented Development

• “Rapid Transit Zones” Put Control of TOD Under One Jurisdiction (8-3-18)

Next City

• Charlotte Moves toward a Car-Free City Center (7-30-18)

Project for Public Spaces

• Ten Ways to Embrace Open Streets in Your City (8-8-18)

Rails to Trails Conservancy

• 2018 Green Issue (8-6-18)
• Cardinal Greenway Trail Voted 2018 Rail-Trail Hall of Fame Inductee (8-2-18)

Safe Routes to School National Partnership

• Building Parks is Not Enough (7-26-18)

SPUR

• Lessons for Guadalupe River Park: Thinking Big Together to Plan the Los Angeles River (8-8-18)

Transportation for America

• Connecting Kansas City and the national economy with transit  (8-3-18)

Transportation Research Board

• Managing Roadways and Transit Together to Move People into a New Age of Technology, Sept. 25 - 27, 2018, Bellevue, WA

World Resources Institute

• 4 Lessons from Bhopal and Bogotá on Launching Citywide Bike Sharing (8-7-18)
• With Transportation Data, These Cities Became More Sustainable and Socially Inclusive (8-9-18)
• Cities Are Taxing Ride-Hailing Services Like Uber and Lyft. Is This a Good Thing? (8-9-18)