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According to an executive order signed Wednesday through Gov. Gavin Newsom, if you need to buy a new gas-fueled passenger car in California, you may not have a chance, according to an executive order signed Wednesday through Gov. Gavin Newsom. the state’s greenhouse fuel emissions and other pollution.
Possession, operation and sale of pre-owned gas cars will still be permitted after 2035.
“Of all the simultaneous crises we face as a state and I as a country, in fact from a global point of view, none is more important, none is more powerful than the climate crisis factor,” Newsom said.
Requiring all cars sold in the state from 2035 to be “zero emission” cars will result in more than 35% relief in greenhouse fuel emissions and 80% relief in some poisonous fumes provided by cars. vehicle exhaust fumes, according to state forecasts. Newsom’s order says the state will particularly want to expand its cargo infrastructure to the rise of electric cars.
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The new hydraulic fracturing inputs are also found in the environmental cutting block, which Newsom expects until 2024.
Hydraulic fracturing is a strategy in which water, sand or chemicals are injected into the ground to fracture formations and melt oil, which According to Newsom accounts for approximately 2% of the state’s oil production. fracking, planned to work with lawmakers to legally obtain new fracking permits.
What the governor did not directly address what the state planned to do with respect to the procedure of steam fracturing or cyclic vaporization at high pressure, in which fiery steam is injected, without chemicals, under the floor to fracture the formations. The oil extraction strategy has been linked to injuries and deaths of personnel and wildlife and many oil spills.
For more than two decades, Chevron and other oil corporations have made millions collecting oil from cyclical spills related to high-voltage steam, according to a recent survey through The Desert Sun and ProPublica.
Newsom and California Secretary of Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot said a moratorium was imposed on steam fracking while studies were being completed to see if it can be done safely. However, the moratorium only covers new inputs for high-pressure cyclic steam and not oil corporations The governor said a preliminary study on steam fracturing would soon be completed.
Joseph I. Castro on Wednesday appointed California State University directors as the new rector of the CSU system, making him the first Mexican-American and Native California to lead the country’s four-year-old public college system.
Grandson of Mexican immigrants raised through a single mother, Castro, 53, is an experienced university administrator, having been president of CSU Fresno since 2013; prior to that, he was a professor of family medicine and vice-chancellor of university students. California, San Francisco.
“I’m excited and revered to be the first in California and the first Mexican-American to be chancellor of California State University,” Castro said. His voice trembled with emotion as he thanked his mother and family, some of whom he said were watching CSU. assembly of live administrators. To his family, he said, “I love you all. “
In the CSU formula of 23 campuses, Latino academics make up the largest ethnic organization with 43%, followed by white academics with 22%, Asian academics with 16% of Asian academics and black academics with 4%.
Castro’s new task begins in January.
Southern California Edison on Wednesday announced a $1. 160 million deal with insurance companies following the 2017 Thomas Fire and Montecito 2018 errors in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. As part of the deal, Edison did not acknowledge committing any crime or liability.
More than a hundred plaintiffs, adding families of insurance companies and monetary institutions, sued the utility company, claiming that its negligence was the cause of the devastating chimney and the resulting landslides.
Thomas’ fire burned for nearly 40 days, destroying 1,063 structures and costing two people their lives. About a month after the fire site began, heavy rains brought mud, trees and rocks from the hills over Montecito, destroying more than a hundred houses and killing about two dozen people. The prosecution alleged that the crisis would not have occurred if the Thomas chimney site had not stripped the floors of the hill.
Researchers decided that Edison’s power lines formed an arc and came into contact with each other in the upper winds, causing “molten aluminum particles” to fall to the ground, where dry plants caught fire.
Wednesday’s announcement showed that the deal stems from the Thomas Fire dispute and landslides. In November, Edison agreed to pay $150 million to public entities in any of the counties in the wake of the incidents.
“We are making progress in resolving disputes over forest chimneys,” Pedro J said. Pizarro, president and CEO of Edison’s parent company, Edison International.
The Guardian reports that investigators are investigating the option that the Bobcat fire, one of the largest in Los Angeles County history, began through Edison’s southern California application apparatus.
According to the article, Edison passed over a segment of an air conductor to a transmission facility near the origin of the chimney. And last week, Edison told the California Public Utilities Commission that this specific device had encountered a challenge five minutes earlier. the initial report of the chimney on September 6.
However, Edison spokesman David Song said the cameras were capturing a more distinct timeline, appearing smoke in the before Edison’s problem.
CNBC reports that California-based electric car manufacturer Tesla is suing the U. S. government and U. S. trade representative Robert Lighthizer for applying “arbitrary” price lists on portions imported from China.
And while we’re talking about cars, the Los Angeles Times reported that a new ballot shows that Californians are convinced that the concept of allowing Uber, Lyft and other app-based driving corporations to upgrade AB Five and employ their drivers as independent contractors.
Speaking of surveys, according to a recent California survey, reported through ktla. com, only 37% of the electorate said it was in Proposition 21, which aims to give cities and counties more strength to put hiring control into effect in their communities.
In California, a summary of USA Today. Contributing also: CNBC, The Guardian, ktla. com, Los Angeles Times.