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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

Melanie Curry
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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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