Rent Control Issue will Rise in the Aftermath of the Protests
The immediate cause of the demonstrations in Los Angeles and elsewhere following the police killing of George Floyd is well known—brutality by cops inflicting racist treatment on African Americans. But dig deeper into Floyd’s and other killings and you’ll find a more complex story. For Los Angeles, it is a story largely shaped by […]
What is Environmental Racism?
What is “environmental racism”? I haven’t a clue and apparently neither does the senior Newsom Administration official who after suggesting polluters were committing it retracted her assertion. Even before the ink was dry the official removed her accusation from the Twitter blast that contained it. Indeed, Mary Nichols, Chairman of the California Air Resources Board […]
California Continues to Inflict More Costs onto the Energy Used by Residents
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decided on May 28th that climate lawsuits filed by San Mateo County and the cities of San Francisco and Oakland asserting a California public nuisance claim against five energy companies arising from the role of fossil fuel products in global warming can proceed in state court. The lawsuits utilize […]
From tragedy to opportunity: We could live better when today’s mayhem ends
For most people in this locked-down, riot-scarred world, the future beckons unpleasantly. There is a growing sense that, economically, the 2020s may look more like the 1930s than some halcyon post-industrial future. “Dark days ahead,” suggests The Week. “This is what the end of the end of history looks like.” Yet, beyond the depressing statistics, […]