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, 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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