Today’s Headlines

8:48 AM PDT on July 18, 2017

CA cap-and-trade bills pass:
- Rare bipartisan effort (LA Times)
- Political fault lines exposed (SF Chronicle)
- Six ways Jerry Brown got the climate deal (Capitol Alert)
- Live blog: side deals and votes (Capital Public Radio)
Meanwhile, three CA counties sue oil companies for contributing to, dismissing climate change (SFGate)
“Virtual” bike trip shows what it's like to bike to work in LA (LA Times)
SF Mission neighborhood blocks bike-share (SF Examiner)
That close call at SFO was a REALLY close call (East Bay Times)
New York Times notices California's housing crisis
US Census is necessary; don't cut it (NY Times)
Hey, Honolulu: If you're going to ban texting while walking, here's some other petty laws you could pass while you're at it (Mashable)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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