LOS ANGELES — This afternoon, the Los Angeles City Council voted to allow the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to disregard the concerns of Angelenos and environmental advocates and move forward with its ill-conceived plans to retrofit the Scattergood gas plant to be able to burn a mix … [continued]
How 4 Companies Are Working To Bring New Technologies to Communities in Need—With Help From National Laboratory Experts By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy and Stacy Parker, NLR A year after the Palisades and Eaton wildfires destroyed more than 13,000 homes in Los Angeles County, fewer than a dozen had been rebuilt. Rebuilds … [continued]
Airports in Europe account for more emissions than Latin America, the Middle East and Africa combined. NEW research from global affairs thinktank ODI Global, in partnership with T&E (Transport & Environment) and with data provided by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), reveals the climate and air quality impacts … [continued]
Sacramento, CA — In a written decision today, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) denied a SoCalGas application that would have charged customers $266 million to fund the controversial Angeles Link Project pipeline. This decision means that SoCalGas will either drop the project entirely or require shareholders to pay to develop the risky … [continued]
With all the news about mostly declining sales of new electric vehicles in the US, there has been an unexpected “silver lining.” That is a steady stream of new public EV charger installations, including many fast chargers. Within the new installation trend, there is more of a “golden lining,” which … [continued]
Another self-driving vehicle development crossed the wires this past week. MOIA America, LLC, which is part of Volkswagen Group, is partnering with Uber on self-driving vehicle deployment in Los Angeles. In the testing phase, they plan to have 100 autonomous ID. Buzz vehicles rolling around the streets of the city. Naturally, … [continued]
22 state and local officials ask for probe into flood of more than 20,000 AI-generated comments. OAKLAND — Twenty-two California state and local elected officials are calling on Attorney General Rob Bonta and four district attorneys to open a formal investigation into two alleged AI astroturf campaigns that flooded air quality … [continued]
Zoox sort of feels like “The Little Engine That Could.” For years, Waymo and Tesla have gotten almost all of the attention in the US for their robotaxi plans and progress — as well as Cruise, a bit, before it shut down. However, Zoox slid onto the scene sort of … [continued]
LOS ANGELES — Environmental and public health advocates are calling on California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman to investigate an AI-powered campaign that allegedly submitted public comments attributed to residents without their consent to oppose Southern California clean air standards. The extent of the AI … [continued]
Utah’s largest coal-fired power plant — the Intermountain Power Project (IPP), located in the Great Basin region of western Utah and primarily serving southern California — is no longer operating, after the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power quietly pulled the plug just before Thanksgiving. The shutdown happened with … [continued]
