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— often related to false ideas that global warming is a scam or that the threat is overblown. Those falsehoods are still around, but what we're seeing a lot more of these days arethat wind turbines cause cancer or cause birth defects in animals. Disinformation may be spreading because solutions are really spreading.
Moreno says the attacks give his colleagues a reluctance to publish articles about their work. And he says this is what the conspiracy theorists want: to silence them. And we've seen harassment and threats based on conspiracy theories targeting climate scientists and meteorologists for years.It's not in the interest of Fox News and others who benefit financially from stoking outrage and, by and large, also have partisan rooting interests.
“I think having a new mayor has breathed new life into the council" too, said Sara Sadhwani, assistant professor of politics and Pomona College. “You see the mayor’s call to lock arms being quite effective at pulling the council members together.”L.A. City Council President Paul Krekorian recalls the pandemonium following the release on Oct. 9, 2022, of a secretly recorded audio tape of colleagues making racist and derogatory remarks.
“The biggest thing was it dislodged a tyrannical council president,” Quan said of the release of the audio recording. InKrekorian prides himself on collegiality and believes it's been important to moving the council beyond the controversy.And the council leans decidedly more left. “I think having a new mayor has breathed new life into the council,” Sadhwani said. “You see the mayor’s call to lock arms being quite effective at pulling the council members together.”, Krekorian in December created an ad hoc committee to examine changes to L.A. city government. On Thursday, that committee voted to refer to the full council charter amendments to create an independent redistricting commission.
The City Council Ad Hoc Committee on Governance Reform took public comment on a proposal to establish an independent redistricting commission at a hearing on Oct. 5, 2023.The ad hoc committee is also considering a proposal to increase the size of the council. While the comments were denounced in both Black and Latino communities, there’s likely “simmering tension” over what was heard on the tape, Segura said.
The council president said this the day after Councilmember John Lee was accused of ethics violations. Lee has denied the allegations.Council members are seated alphabetically around the horseshoe of desks inside city council chambers. That means Harris-Dawson, who is Black, sits next to de León, who expressed anti-Black sentiment on the tape.“It's challenging,” Harris-Dawson said. “It tests my home training.”One of the enduring mysteries surrounding the tape is who recorded it.
Frank Stoltze explores who has power and how they use it at a time when our democratic systems have been under threat.Former L.A. city council president Nury Martinez with belongings from her council office now stored in boxes in the living room of her home.We asked former L.A. City Council president Nury Martinez to explain what she said on the secret tapes. Here’s what she said.
“I don't even know if I'm the right person to even have these conversations anymore,” she said, “because I've been tainted in such a way where I don't even know if I would even be welcome. Even in this conversation, I feel really scared and nervous to even dive into that.” On Oct. 11, 2022, President Biden’s press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, said during a press conference, “the president is glad to see that one of the participants in that conversation has resigned. But they all should. He believes that they all should resign. The language that was used and tolerated during that conversation was unacceptable and it was appalling. They should all step down.
They focus on Council District 9, a majority Latino district in South L.A. that’s currently represented by a Black man, Curren Price. They care about this district because it’s become the district with the highest percentage of Latino residents in the city, and they think it will be represented by a Latino in the future. They want District 9 to have some good economic “assets,” like universities, stadiums, airports, etc, that are tied to good union jobs and bring resources into the district.
The conversation that we were having didn't have to do with Gascón himself, just had to do with so much of the frustration and anger that I was carrying with me inside me when I walked into that room. And that is no fault of the African American community. Martinez says, “I see a lot of little short dark people,” and, “I don’t know where these people are from, like I don’t know what village they came out of, how they got here, but, tán feos!,” which means, “they’re ugly.”
“The idea was that the South Coast Air Quality Management District has the authority — and the responsibility — of providing some protection to this community,” he said. "Shipping is kind of unique," says Gavin Allwright, secretary-general of the International Windship Association , a not-for-profit trade organization that advocates for wind propulsion in commercial shipping. From antiquity, ships used clean and free wind energy,"then we carbonized and now we're going back to zero carbon."About 90% of the world's goods — everything from soybeans to sneakers — are transported by sea.
On its first voyage last month after it was retrofitted, the 5-year-old Pyxis Ocean hit 16.2 knots with the WindWings working in tandem with the ship's engine running at minimum power, Cooper says. Allwright of the Windship Association estimates that, on average, wing technology amounts to $3 million to $4 million tacked on to a $100 million ship."It's not insignificant, but it's also not a huge expense," he says.
The shipping industry is also looking ahead to new fuels, such as ammonia and methanol, that would be cleaner burning and put out less carbon — especially if used with new wind technologies. Those cleaner fuels, however, are likely to be much costlier than today's relatively cheap, but more polluting ones.Fitting WindWings or a similar technology on a cargo ship or on oil tankers is no easy task, but it's simpler than retrofitting some other types of vessels, Collette says.
Starting in January, EV car shoppers won't have to wait until tax season to pocket the incentive, worth up to $7,500. Instead, the credit will be available as cash in hand on the day of purchase — and it'll be available regardless of the size of a customer's tax bill. Dealers will register with the IRS and confirm that a vehicle qualifies for the tax credit, using the vehicle identification number.
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