Today’s Headlines

8:52 AM PDT on July 27, 2017

Cap-and-Trade:
- Brown signs pollution regulation bill, companion to cap-and-trade deal (LA Times)
- Businesses spent lots in the lead-up to vote (E&E News)
- A breakdown of cap-and-trade from an environmental justice perspective (Medium)
- Deal unfair to Central Valley--where peeps gotta drive (Modesto Bee)
- New York Times marvels at California climate change policies
- Why cap-and-trade rather than carbon tax (GreenBiz)
Google Maps is already producing what the air regulation bill calls for: block-by-block air quality maps (Tech Crunch)
Paratransit leaves drivers broke, riders stranded (East Bay Express)
Development at BART stations slows to a crawl (San Francisco Business Times)
Alameda adds bike safety lessons to P.E. classes (East Bay Times)
Small daily ridership at Metrolink station shrinks when parking fee implemented (Daily Bulletin)
Orange County continues to expand 405, despite research saying it won't reduce congestion (LongBeachize)

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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