Today’s Headlines

8:39 AM PDT on August 14, 2020

Air pollution is much worse for health than we have understood, and ditching fossil fuels would pay for itself (Vox)
Bill to create minimum setbacks between oil wells and housing fails in Assembly (LA Times)
- The issue isn't going away, and the oil industry hopes to shape the conversation (LA Times)
Early COVID missteps cost California money, lives (LA Times)
Tax the rich? (CalMatters)
Prisons are bad? So is releasing COVID-positive people without any support (CapRadio)
CTC allocates highway moneys (KSBY)

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, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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