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By Melanie Curry

8:33 AM PDT on July 7, 2022

Climate change is an existential threat (IPCC)
- It’s making it hard to forecast weather, flooding (AP)
- See its effects today in Yosemite (SF Chronicle)
- Rampant wildfires once led to a mass extinction, could happen again (LA Times)
Bay Area air quality sucked after 4th of July (SF Chronicle)
Cognitive overload: We are letting technology distract drivers from their job (LA Times)
Many factors contribute to spiking traffic fatalities (Harvard Gazette)
Bay Area draft transportation investment plan released (Bay Area Metro)
How one unsheltered man in Stockton survives regular camp clearings (Local News Matters)
Despite COVID rental protections, thousands face evictions (SF Chronicle)
15% of Americans are behind on rent (Smart Cities Dive)
PG&E plans to extend the life of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant (San Diego Union Tribune)
Orange County Supes say they don’t have to tell anyone what they did with COVID relief money (Voice of OC)

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