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Today’s Headlines

8:27 AM PDT on July 20, 2020

    • Strike for Black Lives today (LA Times)
    • Housing crisis for Black people is getting worse (LA Times)
    • We're taking essential workers for granted (SF Chronicle)
    • SF Supervisors want to control funds from a ballot measure for Caltrain (SF Chronicle)
    • Facebook abets misinformation about climate (Heated)
    • Court blocks Trump challenge to cap-and-trade (Times of San Diego, EcoWatch)
    • States get together to jump-start transition to electric trucks and buses (KTLA)
    • Air conditioning systems need to be cleaner - they produce too many GHGs (Gizmodo)
    • CARB to (slightly) dial back requirements for Uber, Lyft to go electric (KQED)
    • City of Imperial approves grant application to fund enhanced crosswalks (The Desert Review)

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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