Today’s Headlines

8:28 AM PST on March 8, 2021

E-bike prices are trending upward (Electrek)
CA bill would require AVs to be EVs (Tech Crunch)
Sen. Wiener on high-speed rail: jobs, climate, justice (SF Chronicle)
Oil industry pushes for carbon tax, but regulation is not off the table (Inside Climate News)
- It's too little, and too late (Bloomberg)
- Carbon taxes explained (Vox)
- Biden's climate advisor: Pricing carbon doesn't work anywhere near quickly enough (E&E News)
Who gets to have a say in energy policy and planning? The energy industry (Mother Jones)
Busting myths about affordable housing in Fresno (Fresno Bee)
Mexico City launches an aerial tramway (LA Times)

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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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