Lab Report: Announcing the San Francisco Climate Summit

Climate summit: Tonight California Governor Jerry Brown plans to issue a sweeping invitation to a 2018 global climate action summit in San Francisco—making his announcement via videoconference to Hamburg, where President Trump and other officials will be negotiating a statement on the Paris accord. The New York Times reports:

Grand Central’s moment: A silver lining to the “summer of hell” for New York’s Penn Station is that Grand Central Terminal may get its moment in the sun, in temporarily hosting six Amtrak long-distance routes. One writer says this could be a reminder of “why beautiful and welcoming gateways remain so important to our cities.” (New York Times)