Today’s Headlines
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8:48 AM PST on February 1, 2022
- The US needs a base that supports the climate fight (Jacobin)
- What can one teenager do to fight climate change? (Vice)
- Fighting for justice in California’s polluted communities (CalMatters)
- How one community’s exposure to industrial pollution adds up (CalMatters)
- How oil lobbyists influence state lawmakers (Capital and Main)
- LA bans new oil wells and will phase out existing ones (Scientific American)
- Proposed solution to the rooftop solar dilemma: charge what energy actually costs (CalMatters)
- The belief that widening – and speeding up – a dangerous highway will make it safer runs deep (Fresno Bee)
- COVID has killed about the same portion of the US population as WWII, and in less time (Wall Street Journal)
- CA AG Bonta: fencing off RR tracks in Del Mar would be illegal (KUSI)
- Tesla says it will disable feature allowing its “self-driving” cars to roll through stop signs (Aljazeera)
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