Mayor Robert Garcia proposed the program after the Big City Mayor’s Coalition, a group of mayors from California’s 13 biggest cities, successfully lobbied Gov. Gavin Newsom to include funding for climate change in the 2021 state budget.
Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, a Democrat who represents Lakewood and parts of Long Beach, delivered that stark assessment of California’s efforts to combat climate change in a Monday phone call from the United Nations conference in Scotland.
As the drought-stricken state burns, more and more firefighters are being asked to trade their normal routine of house fires and car wrecks for raging infernos tearing through rural communities.
Members of the student-led Long Beach Green Schools Campaign have become a consistent presence at the biweekly Long Beach Unified Board of Education meetings.
Tuesday’s storm couldn’t wash away the long-term problem of a drought that scientists say is part of a warming and drying trend driven by climate change.
The survey, conducted in June, showed 40% of respondents experienced negative health symptoms on hot days, and 79% said that “heat changes how I travel.”
The goal is to bring awareness to environmental officials and state planners of the neighborhoods most impacted.
Students organizing the Poly Green Schools Campaign want all the district’s campuses to run on 100% clean, renewable energy.
The CAAP report tackles most of the things that can go wrong in Long Beach from climate change, and recommends steps to take to lessen those problems, steps that would cost hundreds of millions of dollars if they were all to be put into effect immediately.
The proposed rule would not ban people from owning gas-powered cars or selling them on the used car market. But it would end the sales of all new gasoline-powered passenger cars and trucks in the state of nearly 40 million people.
