Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:26 AM PDT on August 9, 2017
- Federal climate change report: yup, global warming is real (Washington Post)
- and yup, humans are the cause (East Bay Times)
- and yup, only truly massive carbon cuts will save Miami (and other coastal areas) (Miami New Times)
- Napa explores ban on “reparking” cars to avoid downtown time limits (Napa Valley Register)
- SCAG asks: What else could you do with all the time you’re stuck in traffic? (NRDC)
- While vandals wreck the bikes, advocates question equity of bike-share (SF Examiner)
- Piedmont wants to create a “model” Climate Action Plan (East Bay Times)
- San Mateo transit considers a new sales tax (SM Daily Journal)
- New law gives air quality authorities power to quickly shut down polluters (LA Times)
- Survey: Congress doesn’t have the capacity to understand what it’s doing (Vox)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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