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8:28 AM PDT on July 1, 2016

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    • Leave the car behind when you go on vacation (The Californian)
    • Imperial Valley Assemblymember Garcia's environmental bills move forward (Imperial Valley News)
    • The true cost of environmental gentrification (Fusion)
    • Why is Exxon pushing for a carbon tax? (Environmental Leader)
    • Oil lobbyists encourage gas stations to label pumps with “cost per gallon” of cap-and-trade (Scientific American)
    • Self-driving Tesla involved in fatal crash (NY Times)
      • and some say the problem is that it wasn't fully autonomous (Gizmodo)
    • BART, LA Metro engaged in a haiku battle—here's the roundup (AV Club)
    • CalSTA head weighs in on needed Caltrans reforms (OC Register)
    • In Washington state, court rules that cities must make roads safe for bicycles (Bellingham Herald)
    • Oakland developer changes tone after council votes to ban coal shipments (Governing)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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