Today’s Headlines
City Spends $140m on New Radio System; Transit and Street Cops Still Can’t Talk (NYT) Ground-Breaking for Second Avenue Subway: Happening in Our Lifetime (NY1) Gasoline Spill Reaches Bronx River (Daily News) Riverkeeper Sues Exxon for Newtown Creek Dumping (Daily News) Times Skeptical on Bush’s Energy Promises (NYT) Reality Check on President’s Fuel Economy Plan … Continued
9:50 AM EST on January 25, 2007
- City Spends $140m on New Radio System; Transit and Street Cops Still Can’t Talk (NYT)
- Ground-Breaking for Second Avenue Subway: Happening in Our Lifetime (NY1)
- Gasoline Spill Reaches Bronx River (Daily News)
- Riverkeeper Sues Exxon for Newtown Creek Dumping (Daily News)
Times Skeptical on Bush’s Energy Promises (NYT)- Reality Check on President’s Fuel Economy Plan (Wired)
- At Davos, a Call for Higher Taxes to Pay for Damage to Planet (Guardian)
- Pollution Imperils Jamaica Bay Marshlands (Daily News)
- Paper’s Editorial Strategy on Oil Task Force Report: Ridicule (Wisconsin State Journal)
- State to Hold Hearings on LIRR Gaps (AMNY)
Sarah Goodyear is a journalist and author who has covered cities and transportation for publications such as Grist, CityLab, and Streetsblog.
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