- GOP Senate leaders starting to embrace a delay in new "cash for clunkers" money ... (WSJ)
- ... but that may not matter, now that Feinstein and Collins have stopped calling for stronger fuel-efficiency standards (Fox News)
- Headed into August recess, the climate-change demands pile up for Boxer & Kerry (ClimateWire)
- Lu Young, namesake of the 2005 "SAFETEA-LU" transportation bill, passes away (ADN.com)
- Orange County, CA, using stimulus money for highway-widening (Streetsblog LA)
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