Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:06 AM PDT on August 2, 2019
- Paris is burning: Surviving extreme heat in a big city (Guardian)
- A small city in Ontario downsizes its fire engines instead of obstructing safer street design (Treehugger)
- Getting electric vehicles to pay a share of road maintenance (Planetizen)
- Maybe you should stop flying? (Vox)
- We have to price carbon (City Observatory)
- In bankruptcy, PG&E renegotiates contracts with solar, wind energy providers; won’t abandon CA’s clean energy goals (Sacramento Bee)
- Gentrification and displacement are not the same (City Observatory)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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