Election Day Headlines

Free transit helps voters get to polls; What lobbyists paid (and got paid) in CA; CARB ready to vote on tighter clean fuel standards; More

By Melanie Curry

8:14 AM PST on November 5, 2024

Here it comes…

Free transit on election day helps voters turn out (Government Tech)
New funding will help complete Foothill Gold Line from Pomona to Montclair (Mass Transit)
State lobbying firms spent $550 million during the last two-year legislative cycle (Capitol Weekly)
This man compared the energy needed for a regular bike ride vs an e-bike ride. Conclusions not surprising (CNN Underscored)
California Air Resources Board set to vote on stronger clean fuels standards ) (CBT News)
- A stronger Low Carbon Fuels Standards (LCFS) will save money, clear the air (Sacramento Bee)
- CARB's LCFS has been successful; don't undermine it (Legal Planet)
- Opposition to a stronger LCFS focuses on what it might do to gas prices (LA Times)
Canada proposes its own emissions cap on oil and gas industry (Toronto City News, Bloomberg)
When people lose housing, they lose a lot more than just a place to sleep (ProPublica)

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Melanie Curry @StreetsblogCal

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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