Today’s Headlines

• 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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