Today’s Headlines

8:27 AM PST on February 26, 2021

CA cap-and-trade auction sells out for second time in a row - with detailed explanation of the program (EDF)
Oxnard school district buses go electric (Valdosta Daily Times)
Anaheim Transportation Network moves towards all-electric transit (Mass Transit)
Transit could be a winner under Democrats' COVID stimulus plan (SF Chronicle)
The growing importance of bike infrastructure (Sonoma County Gazette)
Most of those new USPS trucks won't be electric, and that's a problem (Bloomberg)
"Opportunity zones" aren't doing distressed communities much good (Pew)
A dive into how Sacramento's zoning reform would work (Capital Public Radio)
How SF plans to redirect law enforcement money to Black residents (SF Chronicle)
Air Board tells growers to end ag waste burns by 2025 (CalMatters)
More on auditor report re state's inability to meet GHG reduction goals (Green Car Congress)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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