Friday’s Headlines: Trying to Think Positive Thoughts

• The EPA can’t end grants from $20 billion Biden-era fund for climate-friendly projects, a judge says (AP)
• Inspired by his hometown in Ecuador, one man is picking up trash across LA (LA Public Press)
• Traffic Trains and Trade-offs: Sammy Roth talks to NRDC’s Carter Rubin in the latest episode of the Boiling Point podcast
• Environmental study released for San Gabriel Valley Greenway Network; 140 linear miles of waterways will provide space for new pocket parks, street crossings, furniture, street safety improvements, trees, and stormwater infrastructure. (Urbanize LA)
• Sacramento touts being first to use AI cameras on buses to cite people parked illegally in bike lanes (ABC10)
• Building an Alliance Between Firefighters and Street Safety Advocates (CalBike)
• Northwestern study shows success of Peacekeepers Program in significant reduction in gun violence in Chicago area (CBS Chicago)
• How community science helps researchers at the Natural History Museum (LAT)
• Reprieve granted: Freedom Riders faced a mob at this Montgomery, AL bus station. DOGE wanted to sell it. (WaPo)
• Senator meets with Kilmar Abrego García, the Maryland resident wrongly deported and imprisoned, in El Salvador (WaPo)
• So much for positive thinking…
  • DHS tells Aldo Martinez, immigration advocate and US citizen born here in California, to leave country (NBCLA)
  • More immigrants opt to self-deport rather than risk being marched out like criminals (LAT)
  • Father dropping daughter off at school arrested by immigration agents in Azusa; NBCLA says they found no criminal history for him (NBCLA)
  • An audit of L.A.’s program to fix deadly streets outlines its many failures (LAT newsletter)
  • Man critically injured in “random” stabbing on pedestrian bridge to Sierra Madre Metro station (NBCLA)
  • Newport Police shoot, kill “uncooperative” motorcyclist during traffic stop (ABC7; KCAL)
  • 9 injured in violent San Fernando Valley 3-vehicle crash (KTLA); see dramatic dashcam video (ABC7)
  • Driver injured after trying to beat oncoming train in Orange (KTLA)
  • Community advocates rally for care-based programs as LA County faces budget cuts (CALÓ News)
  • Why the best bike lanes always get the most pushback (CityLab)
• Tariffs can impact insurance rates, raising cost of car ownership (NPR)
• Where recovery efforts stand 100 days after the Palisades Fire (NBCLA)

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