Today’s Headlines

• 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)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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