Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:36 AM PST on January 14, 2021
- On jaywalking and victimless “crimes” (Governing)
- The Capitol riot and climate disinformation (NY Times)
- And its connection to big oil (Heated)
- How your representative voted on impeachment, and on rejecting election results (NY Times)
- Amtrak Joe Biden forced to forgo train trip to inauguration (LA Times)
- Latinx population in L.A. is being hit hard by COVID (LA Times)
- COVID lockdowns had only a minor impact on urban air quality (Reuters)
- Report: Environmental organizations are still overwhelmingly white (NBC News)
- California’s farmworkers fight for better housing (The Nation)
- Public housing in the U.S. is built on cheap, industrial, polluted land (The Intercept)
- Utah can teach CA a few things about replacing gas tax with a per-mile fee (SLC Tribune)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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