Today’s Headlines

8:36 AM PDT on July 5, 2022

Climate change won't wait (IPCC)
Supreme Court risks human survival for shortsighted ideological goals (The Hill)
- Did the Supreme Court gut federal power? (Planetizen)
- It could have been worse (Grist)
- Cities are left holding the bag on the environment (Bloomberg)
- Environmental groups, Newsom respond to Supreme Court ruling on EPA (Daily Kos)
Focus on reducing gas demand instead of prices (Slate)
“Ban cars” doesn’t mean wipe them off the face of the earth, but we need to talk about them (Jalopnik)
Amazon, UPS, USPS are all testing e-cargo bikes to replace vans (Electrek)
Santa Clarita Congressional Rep Garcia tries (and fails) to stop feds from giving money to “failed” CA high-speed rail (Black Chronicle)
LA Metro’s ambassador program aims to help riders feel safe (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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