Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:18 AM PDT on August 11, 2022
- How the heck did they get a climate bill passed? (AP, E&E)
- Air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions being measured and mapped at a “hyperlocal” scale (Vice)
- FHWA’s “Carbon Reduction Program” lets states ignore the reduction piece (Transportation For America)
- Why aren’t speed governors required on vehicles? (Bloomberg)
- Paris to become a 100% cycle city (Momentum Mag)
- USDOT’s Reconnecting Communities grant program needs more funding (Transportation For America)
- Plans for an “inland port” in Kern County (ABC)
- Los Gatos residents want to repeal General Plan that calls for “unnecessarily high number” of housing units (Mercury News)
- CA AG weighs in on East Bay affordable housing fight (SF Chronicle)
- Housing factions weaponize two state laws to win their arguments (CalMatters)
- Hey, San Bernardino: don’t waste everyone’s time on vote to secede (Daily Bulletin)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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