Monday’s Headlines

Oil industry ad campaign on gas prices is deceptive, cynical, insulting; Subsidies for methane reductions in dairy industry are doing more harm than good; Why do traffic laws prioritize speed over safety? More

By Melanie Curry

8:46 AM PDT on March 18, 2024

Why do traffic laws prioritize speed over safety? (Route Fifty)
SF considering expansion of "no right turn on red" rule (ABC7)
Santa Monica "Safe Streets" project wins League of California Cities recognition (Santa Monica Next)
Alameda County gets grant to plan greenway from Oakland to Hayward (Mercury News)
Oil industry launches an ad campaign "explaining" gas prices: don't buy it (LA Times)
Subsidies for methane reduction are skewing California's dairy industry, and backfiring (CalMatters)
Data center and factory demand for electricity is growing, threatening climate goals (NY Times)

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Melanie Curry

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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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