Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:35 AM PDT on August 23, 2016
- Governor Brown signs law ending criminal penalties for youths who evade fares on transit (SF Gate)
- Sacramento RT to raise money by selling naming rights for its stations (Sacramento Bee)
- Disagreements heat up over mountain bike trails in East Bay Regional Parks (Mercury News)
- Results of latest cap-and-trade auction expected today (Sacramento Bee)
- Cap-and-trade bill calls for focus on local pollution (LA Times)
- California’s climate change policies prove that you can fight climate change and grow the economy (NBC News)
- With climate change, mosquitoes are winning and salmon are losing (San Diego Union-Tribune)
- Proposed federal congestion management rules meet with widespread opposition (Transportation for America)
- Norway isn’t exactly banning gas-powered cars, but it is making them harder to get and to use (Fast CoExist)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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