Thursday’s Headlines

• Tripling global renewables is hard, achievable, and necessary (and a lot less expensive than oil and gas) (Bloomberg)
• Biden administration pledges to phase out coal power plants (Mother Jones)
• Let’s decode oil company greenwashing language (NPR)
• Major media taking money from oil industry to amplify that greenwashing (DeSmog)
• Exxon crashes COP28 to “fight for its life” (Exxon Knews)
• A leaked Amazon memo shows how it is working to shape public opinion on warehouses (Mercury News)
• Oakland to pay huge settlement for bad pavement that caused a bike rider to crash (Oaklandside)
• Planners of new city in Solano County meet skepticism from current residents (SF Chronicle)
• Nah. We’re very much still building freeways (OC Register)
• More on federal grants for high-speed rail (Route Fifty)
• How the pandemic changed bicycling behavior (Bicycling)

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