Today’s Headlines

8:19 AM PDT on March 23, 2022

Climate change: still not solved (IPCC)
California gets a "D" grade on climate action (CalMatters)
Time to shift into high gear to reduce transportation emissions (Capitol Weekly)
Is cap-and-trade hurting more than it's helping? (LA Times)
New, longer-range electric buses coming to LA Metro (Mass Transit)
Antelope Valley will have an all-electric fleet (Electrive)
- ...18 years ahead of schedule! (Canary Media)
Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities program awards $29m to San Jose development (Mercury News)
California is failing on homeless issues (Guardian)
SMART allots $2.5M for Marin bike, walk paths (Mass Transit)
Fox news really has a hard time with a bike-riding president (Road)
Ukrainian refugee? Come on in! Black and brown people? Hold on there! (Stripes)
Here comes Omicron BA.2 (LA Times)

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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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