Tuesday’s Headlines

• Stay awake, Southern California (LA Times)
• Mutual aid: LA residents rise to the occasion (CalMatters)
• Can CA afford carbon pricing? Better to ask: can California afford to NOT put a price on carbon? (Energy at Haas)
• A deeper look at California’s state rail plan (Smart Cities Dive)
• MTC is polling Bay Area residents about funding transit (San Mateo Daily Journal)
• Could San Francisco impose congestion pricing? (Mass Transit)
• A pivotal moment for urban bicycling (ITDP)
• To comply with new laws, Super-73 e-bikes will no longer be able to go over 20 mph. Officially, that is. (Electrek)
• Santa Maria transit adds service in response to growing ridership (Santa Maria Times)
• Monterey-Salinas SURF! bus rapid transit line gets a $22M boost from Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
• New SMART station opens in Petaluma (Marin Independent Journal)
• San Francisco traffic is getting worse (San Francisco Chronicle)
• San Francisco, San Jose win $27 million in EV grants (The Bay Link)
• Pete Buttigieg has a few things to say on his way out (The Verge)
• Study: How households can cut energy costs (MIT News)
• In U.S., wind and solar overtake coal (Yale Environmental)
• Senator Josh Becker to chair Energy Committee (San Mateo Daily Journal)
• Supreme Court denies oil industry appeal to block climate lawsuits filed by CA and other states (LA Times)
• CA legislators plan to set aside money to defend climate policies, immigrants against Trump (Politico)
• Geographically based price discrimination for hotel bookings is sophisticated and real (SF Gate)

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