I-94 at Warren Avenue on Sunday morning.
(Photo: Twitter/Jennifer Ann Wilson, WXYZ)
This is adapted from eight tweets Saturday by an associate dean at University of Detroit Mercy School of Law whose expertise includes environmental law, water law and Great Lakes issues.
By Nick Schroeck The thing that s really depressing about the flooding in Detroit and Southeast Michigan is that it is predictable and predicted with climate change. We ve lived through it in 2014. We know that more intense rainstorms will continue and grow ever stronger.
A Detroit freeway Saturday.
(Photo: Michigan State Police) Our response? Nibbling around the problem with modest green infrastructure development, avoiding some grey infrastructure through permitting that considers climate impacts to a limited extent, resurfacing and expanding roads without any significant green infrastructure planning, a modest shift towards renewable energy in the state but far less than needed, continued reliance on co
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