Today’s Headlines
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8:06 AM PST on March 9, 2022
- Climate change is still upon us (IPCC)
- Spring comes sooner and gets warmer these days (Yale Environment)
- The “lungs of the planet” close to collapse (Grist)
- Worried? Make these minor lifestyle changes, all good! (Guardian)
- But those gas prices! (SF Gate, LA Times)
- Fix it first is important, but no one wants to require it at the federal level (Transportation for America)
- Freeways are not free (U.S. PIRG)
- GM and PG&E will test program to use electric vehicles to power the grid during outages (San Francisco Chronicle, Wall Street Journal)
- San Diego transit agency makes excess land available for housing (San Diego Union Tribune)
- Could Sepulveda Basin be a Central Park for LA? (CalMatters)
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