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The Echo Park Lake Displacement: Just Plain Wrong


MEMO TO: 
City Council, City of Los Angeles (CD 1: Gil Cedillo, CD 2: Paul Krekorian, CD 3: Bob Blumenfield, CD 4: Nithya Raman, CD 5: Paul Koretz, CD 6: Nury Martinez, CD 7: Monica Rodriguez, CD 8: Marqueece Harris-Dawson, CD 9: Curren D. Price Jr., CD 10: Mark Ridley-Thomas, CD 11: Mike Bonin, CD 12: John Lee, CD 13: Mitch O’Farrell, CD 14: Kevin de León, CD 15: Joe Buscaino)
Eric Garcetti, Mayor of Los Angeles
Heidi Marston, Executive Director, LAHSA 
FROM: The undersigned faculty, UCLA, USC, UCI, Occidental College 
We write to express our grave and urgent concerns about the recent displacement of the homeless encampment at Echo Park Lake. Many of you have either been actively involved in such displacement or supported it through your silent acquiescence. Especially troubling is the Mayor’s statement, suggesting that such displacement serves as a useful precedent and template. As reported by the LA Times on March 27, 2021 “Mayor Eric Garcetti f ....

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Tracking Biden's first 100 days: UCLA experts assess progress on environmental issues


 
UCLA School of Law
Cara Horowitz
Point of view: This is the first administration to place climate change leaders in strong appointments across agencies and domains, up and down the roster. From Health and Human Services to highway safety to the budget office, there are now climate champions in place to help tackle this problem from many directions. That’s hugely promising. 
Next up: The United States owes the world its next climate action pledge under the Paris Agreement, and that pledge will be announced later this year. If President Biden is serious about retaking international leadership on this issue, our U.S pledge better be a good one, because global leadership starts at home. The U.S. is going to have to show that it can make meaningful, enduring domestic progress on climate change before trying to exercise any moral authority at the U.N.  ....

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Unmaking California's Central Valley - Los Angeles Review of Books


Unmaking California’s Central Valley
Mark Arax
IN THIS YEAR of heat records and fire tornadoes, California faces another potential crisis: drought. In November 2020, more than 80 percent of the state’s land mass was classified as somewhere between “abnormally dry” and “extreme drought” by the United States Drought Monitor. The chances of the winter offering relief look slim, given what’s called a “La Niña climate pattern,” which is associated with arid conditions in much of California. The months ahead are, in general, far more likely to bring water worries than happy surprises.
To longtime California residents, such fears are familiar. The state’s most recent drought began in 2012 and stretched into the early days of the Trump administration. Minds not entirely fogged by 2020 may recall the choreographed spectacle in April 2015 when then-Governor Jerry Brown stood on a snowless mountaintop to announce the state’s first-ever mandatory urban water ....

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