Today’s Headlines

8:54 AM PDT on June 21, 2019

Trump EPA chief writes to Republican lawmakers--not Congress--accusing CARB chair Mary Nichols of lying about clean car rule negotiations (Sacramento Bee)
- But former EPA staffer says EPA chief is the one lying (The Hill)
- And the feds are the ones unwilling to negotiate (Route Fifty)
La Verne forms an Active Transportation Committee (Bike La Verne)
BART is promised $300m by feds for transbay tube work (SF Chronicle)
La Verne residents oppose road widening planned near new light rail (Daily Bulletin)
California to let two Chinese companies bring "robotaxis" to the state (Tech Crunch)
To save Oregon from the horrors of cap-and-trade, Republican reps run away (Intelligencer)

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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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