Wednesday’s Headlines
Brightline West to break ground next year; State's new Transit Transformation Task Force; E-bikes are radically more efficient than electric cars; More
8:41 AM PST on December 13, 2023
- Who was appointed to the state’s Transit Transformation Task Force? (NRDC)
- Brightline West says it will break ground next year (ABC 7)
- COP28 concludes with weak pledges to “transition away” from oil use (AP)
- E-bikes are radically more efficient than electric cars (Clean Technica)
- Sacramento aims to build an institution to push development and adoption of EVs, clean mobility (GovTech)
- Climate change denier who worked for years fighting environmental rules retires, and gets quite a sendoff from E&E News
- Why does Kern County want to make MORE carbon – which it plans to bury? (Capital & Main)
- Pomona failed to extend its ban on new warehouses (Daily Bulletin)
- Take a look at some really bad bike racks (Road.cc)
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