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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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Melanie Curry@StreetsblogCal

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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