Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:27 AM PST on January 28, 2021
- The killing of a 4-year-old shows LA’s failure on traffic violence (LAist)
- Record COVID deaths continue in SoCal (San Diego Union Tribune, Daily Bulletin)
- How to ensure a just transition to clean energy (Anthropocene)
- There’s lots of money being made off carbon offsets (Reuters, Wall Street Journal)
- What Transportation for America liked – and didn’t – about Buttigieg’s confirmation hearing
- Meet the new leaders of the USDOT (Transportation for America)
- No oil drilling on federal lands – what that means for California (SF Chronicle)
- Connections between the lumber industry and the Capitol riots (Mother Jones)
- Electric charging stations rolling out at California highway rest areas (KGET)
- Upland City Council wants to slow building of warehouses (Daily Bulletin)
- Another try for a second transbay tube in SF Bay Area (SFist)
- Millions in private funding raised for wildlife crossing over 101 in Southern California (Daily News)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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