Today’s Headlines

8:14 AM PST on March 2, 2022

Climate action is still urgently needed ASAP (LA Times, NY Times)
Scientists are ready to go on strike to bring attention to climate change (NY Times)
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is ready to gut EPA's authority to regulate climate-change-causing emissions (Inside Climate News, New York Times, Vox, Slate, S&P Global)
California's cap-and-trade auction sells out at record price (ClimateWire)
A downtown Oakland street is slated for a total makeover (Oaklandside) Palo Alto will keep a car-free street (Palo Alto)
New bridge over future high speed rail completed in Fresno County (RT&S)
San Diego transit ridership slowly rising (Mass Transit)
A look at the bill to coordinate transit in the SF Bay Area (Gov Tech)
HCD rejects LA's Housing Element, and other planning news bits (California Planning & Development Report)
"Forced gentrification": When a city takes over maintenance of a house (SF Chronicle)
Newsom left it out of his budget, but community groups still want a fund for health, equity, and racial justice (CalMatters)

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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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