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Today’s Headlines

9:09 AM PDT on June 30, 2017

    • Connections among transportation, freight, and environmental justice in the Inland Empire (Safe Routes to School)
    • Civil engineers need to learn other languages, or at least do some traveling (Systemic Failure)
    • Video: Caltrans figures out how to dig Highway 1 out from under the mud
    • A history of zoning (Strong Towns)
    • Climate policy benefits vastly exceed costs (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
    • How climate change will affect California's water (Sacramento Bee)
    • Garcetti, Schwarzenegger talk climate (Fox and Hounds)
    • CTC still widening CA roads for “safety” (of vehicles) and “efficiency” (that is, speed) (Bakersfield.com)
    • VW to locate its Green City electric vehicle program in Sacramento (Sacramento Bee)
    • New California U.S. Rep Jimmy Gomez hasn't been sworn in yet, and Republican leader is getting impatient (LA Times)

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