Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

By Melanie Curry

8:09 AM PDT on October 23, 2019

Trump sues CA over cap-and-trade agreement with Canada: “Rogue foreign policy” (Sacramento Bee)
Grover Beach installs berms to protect bike lanes, then quickly votes to remove them (KSBY)
Angie Schmitt is taking on the pedestrian safety crisis (The Urbanist)
Central Valley electeds continue pushing to reinstate “deleted” highway projects that weren’t actually deleted (Visalia Times Delta)
California ditched coal; is natural gas next? (LA Times)
- It should be: Natural gas is contributing to increasing and dangerous pollution (Bloomberg)
Transportation is the fastest growing source of emissions (World Resources Institute)
London’s experiment with a low-emission zone shows quick success (Intelligent Transport)
International mining corp to begin extracting lithium for EV batteries from waste pilings in Death Valley (Transport Topics)
Who’s really leaving California, and does it matter? (Curbed)
Facebook pledges $1 billion for housing (New York Times)
- Facebook, USF, Silicon Valley Community Foundation join forces on housing shortage (Mercury News)
CARB releases nation’s first electric truck standard (Freight Wave)
Cities with more black residents rely more on income from traffic tickets and fines (CityLab)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Today's Headlines

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