Today’s Headlines

• Study: Bicycle riders are better drivers (Cycling Magazine)
• Electric bikes provide all the benefits of good exercise (Science Nordic)
• Oil industry spent more on California lobbying in first half of 2017 than all of 2016 (Elk Grove News)
  • ....and that lobbying made cap-and-trade a “toothless” regulation that has no effect on emissions (East Bay Express)
• Meanwhile the latest cap-and-trade auction results show a strong, stable market (Environmental Defense Fund)
  • It sold out (The Star) at a record price (ClimateWire), raising more than $800 million (LA Times)
• Cities along San Pablo Avenue corridor in East Bay seek input on development plans (East Bay Times)
• More on SF's “Rapid Response Team” (NextCity)
• Uber hid a massive data breach for over a year (SF Gate)
• Riverside ponders a new transportation sales tax (Press Enterprise)
• Driverless cars won't save the world, says Richard Florida (CityLab)
• Silver Spring, Maryland gets a bike-share-powered holiday tree (CityLab)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF