Today’s Headlines
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8:25 AM PDT on October 13, 2021
- Oil spill? What oil spill? Toxic waste is everywhere (LA Times)
- Is sucking the carbon out of the air just another oil company ruse? (Mother Jones)
- The dangerous promises of self-driving cars (Bloomberg)
- Billionaires who believe they can bend the natural world to accommodate current human society (Heated)
- San Jose VTA upgrades to contactless fare payment, including bank cards (Kiosk Marketplace)
- Pasadena city council wants electric buses sooner than later (Pasadena Now)
- Barcelona offers free transit to people who ditch their cars (Treehugger)
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