Today’s Headlines

8:45 AM PDT on May 17, 2017

SF Muni cable car used as stand-in for “coastal elites” in GOP attack ad (SF Gate)
Cap and Trade:
- More on Chamber of Commerce joining appeal against it, while professing support for it: (LA Times, Capital Public Radio, Bond Buyer)
- A robust system is needed (Fox and Hounds)
- Brown calls for enabling legislation by June (Argus Media)
CA clean fuels report finds 100% compliance (ARB press release)
Tailpipe tests vastly underestimate diesel pollution (LA Daily News)
Inside Apple's new campus (Wired)
- ...which includes amenities like a fitness center and medical/dental offices—but no child care (Slate)

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Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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