Today’s Headlines
- Pollution hits low-income communities the hardest (Capitol Weekly)
- Reports on the death of cap-and-trade have been greatly exaggerated (Carbon Pulse)
- Californians bought more electric cars in June than the rest of the US combined (Christian Science Monitor)
- Redwoods curb global warming, but California won't invest in them (Mercury News)
- Transportation sales tax measure in Ventura County gets a committee (VC Star)
- Los Angeles isn't a suburb, and we should stop planning it like one (LA Times)
- The bicycle problem that nearly broke mathematics (Scientific American)
- Should a bike-share ride cost the same as a bus? (Next City)
- Your personal fitness data is being used in surprising ways (Outside)
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