L.A. City Council committed last year to getting 100% of the city’s energy from renewable sources, such as wind and solar, by 2035. And on Tuesday, the council unanimously passed two motions to get closer to achieving that goal.
Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell introduced both motions and serves as Chair of the City Council’s committee on Energy, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, and the Los Angeles River.at Fire Station 82, the only one in all of North America,” he said at Tuesday's council meeting. “In the coming weeks, months and years, we'll see all-electric refuse trucks, street sweepers and everything else in the entire city fleet.
“The easy part is to say, let's reach a goal by ‘X’ date,” Krekorian said. “The hard part is figuring out how you make that actually work." Krekorian credited O'Farrell with"getting us to the point that our goals and our vision for doing this decarbonization is actually real and it is going to happen.”
[O'Farrell, who is up for reelection, will face Hugo Soto-Martinez, a union organizer with UNITE HERE Local 11 on the November ballot., Soto-Martinez got just under 41% of the primary vote to O'Farrell's just under 32%.] L.A. has already reduced its greenhouse gas emissions to 49% below 1990 levels, O’Farrell said, but smog pollution
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