Waymo is contradicting the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, which said the autonomous driving company never meaningfully communicated its plans to expand into the county or that it had requested a permit to do so from the California Public Utilities Commission.

On Feb. 8, San Mateo County Attorney John Nibbelin sent a letter to the CPUC, asking them to reject Waymo’s Jan. 19 request for a permit to expand its autonomous commercial services into San Mateo County.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.