Today’s Headlines

8:34 AM PDT on October 27, 2022

Climate change news is dour (NBC News)
CARB says CA carbon emissions fell in first year of pandemic - but that year is an outlier (AP News)
Even when it's turned off, your gas stove might be poisoning you (LA Times)
Autonomous cars are no panacea, warns Buttigieg (Jalopnik)
More electric school buses are coming (AP News)
Another $130M is available from VW settlement for zero-emission transit, school, shuttle buses (Green Car Congress)
Going electric involves a lot more than just finding funding (GovTech)
Bay Area has a shortage of bus drivers (ABC7)
Buttigieg visits failing rail tracks in San Diego (San Diego Union Tribune)
Inside the bike-share lab (Fast Company)
LA and Orange counties could get $295 million for active transportation projects (Urbanize)
CA Association of Realtors apologizes for past redlining and racist housing policies (KQED)
Guerrilla gardening in San Francisco (SF Chronicle)

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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