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Today’s Headlines

8:52 AM PST on January 16, 2020

    • Bicycles are the future of urban transportation (Bicycling)
    • Plumas County releases its final draft Regional Transportation Plan (Plumas News)
    • Richmond City Council bans coal shipments from port despite threat of lawsuits (LA Times, SF Chronicle)
    • State fights plan to move liquified natural gas by train (Patch)
    • Hmmm, maybe "traditional" indigenous practices can actually help prevent fires and reduce emissions (NY Times)
    • The case for "dumb" cities (The Guardian)
    • Report focuses on clean energy--cars and cement factories--for emissions reductions (CalMatters)
    • Uber's attempt to skirt A.B. 5 could allow drivers to discriminate (SF Chronicle)
    • A.B. 5 faces a boatload of lawsuits (Transport Topics, Route Fifty)
    • NASA, NOAA: 2019 was second warmest year on record (LA Times)
    • Heat is decimating populations of ocean birds and fish (LA Times)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry
@StreetsblogCal

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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