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8:26 AM PDT on July 28, 2022

    • Climate change is no joke (IPCC)
    • For St Louis right now, that means record rainfall (Yale Climate Connections)
    • Invisible methane leaks are speeding up climate change (AP)
    • Why the Kylie Jenner private jet controversy matters (Heated)
    • Pacoima tries out cool pavements (Mercury News)
    • The one man holding up even minimal progress on climate policy seems to change his mind (NY Times)
    • The fight over sustainable transportation in Santa Cruz (Bay Nature)
    • El Cajon school buses are first to power the grid (LA Times)
    • SMART reports rising ridership in 2022 (Mass Transit)
    • Elon Musk abandons plan to build a tunnel at Ontario airport, and some want to pick up the slack with public funding (LA Times)
    • Draft EIR on rejiggered Delta water tunnel project released; Comment deadline Oct 27 (CalMatters)
    • Blame bicycles for the highway system - a history (Governing)

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Melanie Curry

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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