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Senate Committee Rejects Legislation Allowing Lawsuits Against Oil and Gas Companies for Climate Disasters

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Good Riddance to Chevron

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

Melanie Curry

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Governor Newsom Signs Three Bills Restricting Oil and Gas Wells Near People

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Highway Boondoggles

Are Texas Transportation Commissioners’ Investments in Auto and Oil Fueling Highway Addiction?

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Commentary: Our Failure to Invest in Trains Leaves us Vulnerable

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Land use

Caltrans Asphalt Addiction Continues

Angie is a Cleveland-based writer with a background in planning and newspaper reporting. She has been writing about cities for Streetsblog for six years.

Angie Schmitt

Gas Prices

What Will Our Future Be Like If We Don’t Change How We Get Around?

New Report Outlines How California Can Kick Its Addiction to Oil

Ben Fried started as a Streetsblog reporter in 2008 and led the site as editor-in-chief from 2010 to 2018. He lives in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, with his wife.

Ben Fried

Elections

What Went Unsaid at Last Night’s Debate

Anne Lutz Fernandez is a former corporate executive with experience in management and marketing of consumer brands such as Weight Watchers frozen foods and Bufferin pain relievers. She also spent a decade as an investment banker in New York and London where her work included marketing the firm&#8217;s services to multinational corporations and advising clients on strategic mergers and acquisitions. She left her position as Director at Credit Suisse to become a writer and teacher. She currently teaches English and lives in Connecticut with her husband, who is also a teacher. She co-authored her first book, Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and its Effect on our Lives, with her sister, anthropologist Catherine Lutz.

Anne Lutz Fernandez

Car Culture

BP, Toyota, and the Illusion of the Car System Tech