Today’s Headlines

8:34 AM PST on March 2, 2023

The slow retreat of pandemic-era outdoor dining continues (Planetizen)
Bill would help convert offices to housing (Mercury News)
- Same thing might happen to malls in the OC (LA Times)
CA lawmakers grill Air Resources Board on scoping plan (Sacramento Bee)
Climate Action Corp expands, paying people to fight climate change (OC Register)
Cracking down on "greenwashing" (The Atlantic)
The world promised to phase out subsidies to fossil fuels. Instead, it doubled them (Heated)
Could CA sue oil companies over prices? (Sacramento Bee)
Here's something for those offended at the notion of a 15-minute city: the 15-hour city! (McSweeney's)

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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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