Today’s Headlines

8:27 AM PDT on August 2, 2022

U.S. cities and states are suing big oil over climate change (PBS)
Feds agree to reverse Trump-era decision to open central CA to new oil drilling (The Hill)
Report: What oil and natural gas use really costs (VC Star)
California still has a very long road to electrifying cars (CalMatters)
The benefits of fare capping (Planetizen)
Some transit news of interest (Railway Age)
How a senator and activists hatched an ambitions plan for the future (CalBike)
What will happen with Bolt's abandoned e-bikes? (Electrek)

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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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