LOS ANGELES—In his final State of the City address at the Sixth Street Bridge, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti highlighted some of the programs and investments for the upcoming fiscal year—with a special focus on public safety, climate change, and housing shortage, plus a $1 billion investment into addressing homelessness. “My goal is to hand…
Garcetti Budgets for Homelessness, Climate Change in Final State of the City Address
April 14, 2022
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Manufacturing Association Maintains Climate Litigation Is Federal Matter Not One For States
April 14, 2022
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The Manufacturers’ Accountability Project (MAP) has criticized the United States 4th Circuit Court of Appeals’ April 6 ruling that remanded a climate change lawsuit—lodged by Baltimore against multinational oil companies—to state rather than federal courts for resolution. The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel “misses the real issue here,” MAP special counsel Phil Goldberg said…
California LAO Climate Change Reports Don’t Include Economic Crisis
Commentary The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office issued a series of six reports this week on how climate change will affect various aspects of life in California. The reports are intended to help the legislature deal with ongoing problems. But the introduction to the Crosscutting Issues report concedes, “Given the complexity of these issues, this report…
Technology and Growth Are the Cures to Climate Doomsday
Commentary I guess you could mark me down as a “climate change skeptic.” I’m not a climate scientist, so I have no expertise on what is happening with the planet’s temperature or severe weather events that can wreak havoc on life and property. I am skeptical that “collective action” through governmental policies will make planet…
Los Angeles Calls for State Pension Funds to Divest From Fossil Fuels
April 5, 2022
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LOS ANGELES—A Senate bill to have the Public Employees’ Retirement System and the State Teachers’ Retirement System divest from fossil fuels was supported by the Los Angeles City Council on April 5. The council passed a resolution, introduced by Councilman Paul Koretz, to support Senate Bill 1173, which was introduced by Sen. Lena Gonzalez (D-…
Australian Clean Energy Billionaire Meets With Biden, Manchin Over Hydrogen
April 3, 2022
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Australia iron ore billionaire Andrew Forrest has met with U.S President Joe Biden and Democrat Joe Manchin to discuss a future of hydrogen. On April 3, Australia’s richest man spent an hour at the White House with Biden in a working meeting involving the commander-in-chief and his senior officials to discuss his ongoing plan to…
UK Climate Change Activists Continue Blocking Oil Terminals
British climate change activists say they are continuing to block oil terminals at various locations across the country, following at least 34 arrests. Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion began to obstruct 10 sites in the Midlands and southern England on Friday, April 1, gluing themselves to roads, locking themselves to oil drums and to…
Climate Protester Suspended From Bridge Near Sydney Coal Terminal Arrested
Climate change activists blockaded a Sydney shipping terminal used to transport coal for the fifth consecutive day, with seven people now charged by police over the incidents. New South Wales (NSW) Police announced an operation was underway early on Saturday morning, around 6.40 a.m., after a 29-year-old man suspended himself from the Botany Road bridge, disrupting…
Discovery of Victorian-Era Data Suggests Extreme Weather Events Not New
Data taken from handwritten 130-year old rainfall observations from Met Office archives has revealed that extreme weather events are nothing new. United Kingdom’s national weather service, The Met Office published the data on Friday gained from millions of archived rainfall records. But long-standing environmentalism skeptics told The Epoch Times that this further undermines the case…
Australia Scraps Visas of Climate Protestors After Major Disruptions to Busiest Port
March 24, 2022
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Australian Immigration Minister Alex Hawke has cancelled the visas of two German climate change activists following three days of protests which disrupted the country’s busiest port. At the same time, New South Wales (NSW) police have launched a strike force to deal with further unauthorised protests, which have caused millions of dollars in lost economic…
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