Today’s Headlines

8:42 AM PDT on August 22, 2019

NY Times debates whether cyclist deaths by crashes are "accidents" or crimes
In defense of the bicycle store bike (Outside)
Colorado joins California and nine other states to adopt zero emission vehicle mandate (Utility Dive)
Trump claims California's insistence on car efficiency standards will bring "business ruin" (Sacramento Bee)
- Meanwhile the oil industry--pushing to roll back those standards--keeps on destroying the environment (Capitol Weekly)
Trump hid scientific findings on serious environmental threat so he could give free water to big farmers (Sacramento Bee)
Oh, great, more air traffic: Test flights begin for Sacramento-Bay Area business shuttle (Sacramento Bee)
Rooftop solar adoption leaves an equity gap (Tech Explore)
- Despite state efforts to bring solar to all (Ventura County Star)
Waymo will give away its data on self-driving cars (CNET)
Bird is not giving cities money for better infrastructure (Smart Cities Dive)

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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