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
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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