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8:30 AM PDT on September 24, 2021

    • Newsom signs a pile of climate change and wildfire bills (Mercury News)
    • Research: Ride-hail is worse for the climate than just driving a personal car (Quartz)
    • Oaklandside reaches out to Oakland residents: Why are this city's streets so dangerous?
    • Bridging the gap between climate justice and housing justice (CalMatters)
    • Court rules San Joaquin Air District can no longer exempt Kern County oil refineries from air quality monitoring (Fresno Bee)

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Melanie Curry
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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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