California faces ‘existential’ dilemma in tackling climate change, housing crisis
Oct. 17, 2021, 1:31 AM PDT By Alicia Victoria Lozano LOS ANGELES — Santa Monica resident Leonora Camner only has to open her windows to escape Southern California’s worsening heat waves. Where millions of Los Angeles County residents must sit in a car for more than an hour to drive to the beach, Camner can […]
Storage hubs hit by limits on smog
By Jeff Horseman jhorseman@scng.com A regional air quality board on Friday approved a landmark rule that would require warehouses and, by extension, the diesel-fueled trucks serving them, to cut chronic air pollution linked to asthma, cancer and deaths in Southern California. In a 9-4 vote after hours of comments and discussion, the South Coast Air […]
Lou Baglietto: Cleaner air doesn’t have to risk jobs at our local ports
By Lou Baglietto: California leads the world in progressive environmental policies aimed at lowering carbon emissions. Who is more environmentally friendly than California? But another area where California is a leader is in unemployment; it ranks in the top-10 for highest unemployment rate in the nation (tied for seventh place). To bring it home, the […]
Have you taken the 2017 BizFed Poll?
Friday, April 14 marks the final day to take the 2017 BizFed Poll. We’re relying on each of you to communicate the priorities of your region and industry sector. Don’t get left out – take this 10-minute poll and make sure others from your network are taking the BizFed Poll as well! Simply visit bizfed.org/poll […]
NAR President: Reauthorize National Flood Insurance Program
By admin on Saturday, April 1st, 2017 The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) will expire in six months, on September 30. The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) recently issued a statement by NAR President Bill Brown urging Congress to reauthorize the program: “When the NFIP expired in 2010, over 1,300 home sales were disrupted every […]
AQMD approves new smog-cutting plan
(Photo) The downtown skyline is enveloped in smog shortly before sunset on November 17, 2006 in Los Angeles, California. DAVID MCNEW/GETTY IMAGES KPCC By: Sharon McNary Air quality regulators adopted an extensive new package of rules Friday aimed at cutting smog in Southern California by half within 7 years. The plan from the South Coast Air […]
Southern California air quality officials OK cleanup plan
By DAVID DANELSKI / STAFF WRITER Published: March 3, 2017 Southern California air quality officials approved a 15-year pollution clean-up plan Friday, March 3, after adding provisions that would eventually eliminate a pollution-credits marketplace that regulates emissions from oil refineries and other major smokestack polluters. But the 11-2 vote by the South Coast Air Quality […]
Bad Foundation for Business
Approval of Measure S would curb development with costly fallout for housing market, workers, employers. By Tracy Hernandez and Josh LaFarga Friday, March 3, 2017 City of L.A. voters will head to the polls on March 7 to determine the fate of Measure S. This initiative is very clear in its intent – place a […]
