Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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
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