Today’s Headlines

7:53 AM PDT on April 23, 2021

An Earth Day for Black lives (Heated)
Biden administration gives CA back its power to regulate vehicle emissions (SF Chronicle)
Biden pledges to slash greenhouse gases (Politico)
Senators discuss transportation funding, including transit operations (Transportation for America)
More on UC report on how to get carbon out of transportation (Green Car Congress)
Report: Lots of jobs coming as California transitions to electric transportation (Green Car Congress)
Newsom explores phasing out fracking permits (SF Chronicle)
New data show widescale use of vehicle surveillance, with little connection to safety (EFF)
The problem of traffic noise may not be intractable (Slate)
Options for upcycling and recycling bicycle gear (Bicycle Retailer)

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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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