Today’s Headlines

• Humboldt still wants to widen Hwy 101 despite threat to old growth redwoods (SF Chronicle)
• LA approves plans for a so-called "green city" at Warner Center in SFV (LA Times)
• Parking lot in San Diego turned into a pedestrian plaza (San Diego Union Tribune)
• Marin County affordable housing project approved under SB 35 rules (Bay Area Metro)
• Natural gas bans: Oakland approves for all new buildings (East Bay Times, SF Chronicle)
  • San Jose passes one for commercial buildings (San Jose Spotlight)
• You can't be a climate mayor if you keep widening freeways (City Observatory)
• Cities are not bad for your health (BBC)
• Bicycle industry booming (Mother Earth News)
• What it can take to be a professional bike racer when you're Black (NY Times)
• Companies with some of the largest carbon footprints - Amazon, Uber, Jet Blue - make a climate pledge (KFGO)
• Home shopping's carbon footprint: Amazon emits more CO2 than 9 European Union countries (in Spanish) (El Pais)
• Who got PPP loans, and for how much? It's all available (Business Journals)
• A dry December means continued fire risk (SF Chronicle)
• The harms from Trump's attempts to meddle with the census (Washington Post)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF