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)

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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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