Today’s Headlines

8:26 AM PDT on October 21, 2022

USEPA: California's greenhouse gas emissions are rising (SF Chronicle)
Fire season undid years of work to reduce GHGs (LA Times)
Gas stoves are poisoning everyone (ACS)
Private jets are not just a minor annoyance in Van Nuys (LA Times)
The candidates for whom the oil industry is buying ads (Capital & Main)
Kern County's political battles are high stakes for the whole state (CalMatters)
Expanding public transit is the best way to respond to gas prices, climate emergency (San Diego Union Tribune)
San Rafael considers transit hub relocation plan (Mass Transit)
LA County, Metro want to remove homeless people from transit - like that will solve homelessness (Mass Transit)
Bakersfield's GET to hold hearing on fare restructuring (raising) (Turnto23)
Redlands approves Transit Villages Specific Plan (Redlands Community News)
Bay Area evictions are rising (Mercury News)
LA Times series on overcrowded housing in LA is devastating (LA Times)
Federal COVID healthcare coverage is ending, and costs will shift to consumers (Mercury News)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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