Today’s Headlines
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8:37 AM PDT on July 19, 2022
- Climate change is heating up the world (IPCC)
- Europe is burning up, with only a small rise in global temperature so far (Evening Standard)
- Desperate to escape the heat, people will add to the problem (CNN)
- Plastic grass is trash (The Guardian)
- This tech to streamline traffic signals is GONNA SAVE US ALL, by golly! (NBCLA)
- Another PR campaign will improve traffic safety, for sure this time (Bakersfield)
- LA’s newest bridge is all about cars, with bikes as an afterthought (LAist)
- What Colorado is learning from its e-bike data (Route Fifty)
- Crossing the country on the California Zephyr (NY Times)
- Monterey-Salinas Transit gets grant to help fund a new busway (Mass Transit)
- We’ve pushed our unhoused residents out to the desert (The Guardian)
- This website helps tenants fight evictions (CaMatters)
- Cryptomining uses a disturbing amount of energy (and for what?) (Grist)
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