Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:45 AM PST on January 21, 2022
- The rise of e-bike deliveries (Guardian)
- Crash data gives an incomplete picture of safety (Next City)
- Fresno receiving $$$ to improve infrastructure, reduce emissions (ABC30)
- Court: Lawsuit against remote Tejon development can continue (Courthouse News)
- CPUC puts off decision on changes to rooftop solar rules (KPBS)
- The opposition has been hot (CalMatters)
- California’s city councils are getting more diverse because LAWS (Washington Post)
- Oil lobbyists have the ear of the Biden administration (Inside Climate News)
- Feds rescind environmental approval for a freeway in Oregon (Bike Portland)
- Federal $ for RR infrastructure could include routes built just for moving crude oil (Colorado Sun)
- People live on top of and near old industrial sites, with pollution (Grist)
- COVID forces a homeless shelter in Oakland to close (Mercury News)
- Finland models how to end all waste (Time)
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