Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement California and nearly two dozen other states on Wednesday filed suit against the Trump administration, arguing that its decision to for cars and trucks puts the public’s health at risk and is based on flawed science.The lawsuit is the latest step in an escalating battle between the administration and Democratic state attorneys general, who have used the courts to push back against the president’s agenda of diluting environmental regulations in order to bolster the economy.The outcome is likely to be decided by the Supreme Court and...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement California and nearly two dozen other states on Wednesday filed suit against the Trump administration, arguing that its decision to for cars and trucks puts the public’s health at risk and is based on flawed science.The lawsuit is the latest step in an escalating battle between the administration and Democratic state attorneys general, who have used the courts to push back against the president’s agenda of diluting environmental regulations in order to bolster the economy.The outcome is likely to be decided by the Supreme Court and...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement As experts warn that exposure to pollution can increase the risk of dying from COVID-19, an array of powerful industries is pressuring California regulators to delay or roll back air quality and climate regulations due to the coronavirus outbreak. The trucking industry wants to stall new emissions-reduction rules. Oil companies want looser enforcement of existing regulations. Port and shipping interests are on ocean vessels as they become Southern California’s largest source of smog-forming pollution. Will Barrett, clean air advocacy...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement As experts warn that exposure to pollution can increase the risk of dying from COVID-19, an array of powerful industries is pressuring California regulators to delay or roll back air quality and climate regulations due to the coronavirus outbreak. The trucking industry wants to stall new emissions-reduction rules. Oil companies want looser enforcement of existing regulations. Port and shipping interests are on ocean vessels as they become Southern California’s largest source of smog-forming pollution. Will Barrett, clean air advocacy...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Years after former Gov. Jerry Brown pledged California would launch its “own damn satellite” to track planet-warming pollutants, the state plans to put not one, but two satellites in orbit to help it hunt for hard-to-find “super-emitters” of methane and carbon dioxide.In an announcement Thursday, a partnership of government and research organizations working under a newly formed nonprofit called Carbon Mapper said it is on track to launch the satellites in 2023 using $100 million in funding from philanthropic groups.The two...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Years after former Gov. Jerry Brown pledged California would launch its “own damn satellite” to track planet-warming pollutants, the state plans to put not one, but two satellites in orbit to help it hunt for hard-to-find “super-emitters” of methane and carbon dioxide.In an announcement Thursday, a partnership of government and research organizations working under a newly formed nonprofit called Carbon Mapper said it is on track to launch the satellites in 2023 using $100 million in funding from philanthropic groups.The two...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Koreatown on Saturday for a unity rally and march down Olympic Boulevard to demand an end to , including the Atlanta-area killings earlier this month, that have stoked fear and outrage in the community.Drums and chants filled the air as demonstrators marched and lifted signs saying, “#Stop Asian Hate” and “Enough is enough.”At the rally, community leaders, local politicians and activists shared emotional stories about being bullied, scapegoated, discriminated against and treated as if they are...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Koreatown on Saturday for a unity rally and march down Olympic Boulevard to demand an end to , including the Atlanta-area killings earlier this month, that have stoked fear and outrage in the community.Drums and chants filled the air as demonstrators marched and lifted signs saying, “#Stop Asian Hate” and “Enough is enough.”At the rally, community leaders, local politicians and activists shared emotional stories about being bullied, scapegoated, discriminated against and treated as if they are...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement For decades, families across a swath of southeast Los Angeles County have lived in an environmental disaster zone, their kids playing in yards polluted with brain-damaging lead while they wait on a state agency to remove contaminated soil from thousands of homes.Now, the cleanup faces even greater uncertainty. A bankruptcy plan by Exide Technologies, which operated the now-closed lead-acid battery smelter in Vernon that is blamed for the pollution, would allow the site to be abandoned with the remediation unfinished. The Trump...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement For decades, families across a swath of southeast Los Angeles County have lived in an environmental disaster zone, their kids playing in yards polluted with brain-damaging lead while they wait on a state agency to remove contaminated soil from thousands of homes.Now, the cleanup faces even greater uncertainty. A bankruptcy plan by Exide Technologies, which operated the now-closed lead-acid battery smelter in Vernon that is blamed for the pollution, would allow the site to be abandoned with the remediation unfinished. The Trump...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement California will halt sales of new gasoline-powered passenger cars and trucks by 2035, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday, a move he says will cut greenhouse gas emissions by 35% in the nation’s most populous state. Emphasizing that California must stay at the forefront of the fight against climate change, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday issued an executive order to require all new cars sold to be zero-emission vehicles by 2035 and threw his support behind a ban on the controversial use of hydraulic fracturing by oil companies.Under...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement California will halt sales of new gasoline-powered passenger cars and trucks by 2035, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday, a move he says will cut greenhouse gas emissions by 35% in the nation’s most populous state. Emphasizing that California must stay at the forefront of the fight against climate change, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday issued an executive order to require all new cars sold to be zero-emission vehicles by 2035 and threw his support behind a ban on the controversial use of hydraulic fracturing by oil companies.Under...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In 2001, a , the planet’s inhabitants would witness higher maximum temperatures, more hot days and heat waves, an increase in the risk of forest fires and “substantially degraded air quality” in large metropolitan areas as a result of climate change.In just the past month, nearly two decades after the was issued, heat records were busted across California, , and in major metropolitan areas, such as and , air pollution has skyrocketed.“This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone,” said Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In 2001, a , the planet’s inhabitants would witness higher maximum temperatures, more hot days and heat waves, an increase in the risk of forest fires and “substantially degraded air quality” in large metropolitan areas as a result of climate change.In just the past month, nearly two decades after the was issued, heat records were busted across California, , and in major metropolitan areas, such as and , air pollution has skyrocketed.“This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone,” said Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement VIDEO | 00:55 Record-breaking wildfires rage across CaliforniaWildfires of historic magnitude have led to daring escapes and wrenching devastation. The death toll from a massive fire that swept through the mountain communities of Butte, Plumas and Yuba counties has risen to 10, and 16 people remain missing, fire officials said Thursday evening. The North Complex fire mushroomed in size this week, scorching a total of more than 252,000 acres and forcing some 20,000 residents in Plumas, Butte and Yuba counties from their homes....…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement VIDEO | 00:55 Record-breaking wildfires rage across CaliforniaWildfires of historic magnitude have led to daring escapes and wrenching devastation. The death toll from a massive fire that swept through the mountain communities of Butte, Plumas and Yuba counties has risen to 10, and 16 people remain missing, fire officials said Thursday evening. The North Complex fire mushroomed in size this week, scorching a total of more than 252,000 acres and forcing some 20,000 residents in Plumas, Butte and Yuba counties from their homes....WW…