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Long Beach and Los Angeles ports in southern California move millions of tons of loads a year, dealing with 40% of the country’s imports and exports. They stir goods, including production, electronics and pharmaceuticals, and are crucial to state and national economies, writes Calmatters. Alejandra Reyes-BellardeS
But with diesel trucks, trains, ships and cargo equipment that enter and exit, they are also The largest single sources of air pollution in the region – Responsible for about one fifth of nitrogen oxides in the region, which help to form a smog.
Local air quality regulators are trying to limit emissions and other pollutants such as Soot, which are related to respiratory diseases. The air quality management area in the south coast prepare a proposal The requirement of both ports to develop a plan by 2027 for electrification of trucks, ships and diesel equipment by building charging and fuel.
The proposal is aligned with the goals set in 2017, when the ports aimed to convert all their cranes, tractors and other equipment by 60 feet to 2030. The change of Long Beach port is estimated to at least $ 1 billion.
But environmentalists say the plan does not go far enough. They claim that the air district needs to develop more applications to reduce other sources of port pollution, and the deadlines must be accelerated for trucks and equipment in order to be converted into zero emissions – especially after the freight volumes should be doubled in ports by 2040.
Even if the ports have achieved their goals, however, the emissions of ports will only be reduced by 14%, according to air quality staff. Also complicates the questions: In January, California’s state regulators moved away from their plan to Put diesel trucks all over the countryquoting the opposition of President Donald Trump’s administration.
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Suggestions for AI Future Policy
By considering the legislature At least 30 bills this session related to the regulation of artificial intelligenceA new set of recommendations issued by leading AI experts is likely to have Main influence on the formation of AI measures in California.
Calm Harry Johnson Explained, after veto of a High Profile AI Bill last year On the grounds that this will limit innovation, governor Gavin Newo formed a group last fall called a joint Working Group for California Policy on AI Frontier models. Task to develop a Frame for AI Management “Border Models”-the most Avangard forms of the AI group Report Tuesday to help legislators bring more transparency to the development of AI. Some key suggestions include:
- Have an independent party evaluate advanced AI models;
- Consider the adoption of laws that protect the submission of signals;
- Take a look at a potential system that marks the government when private companies develop dangerous AI tools.
State Seni. WienerDemocrat from San Francisco, who is the author of the imposition of Bill News, praised the report and said he was considering incorporating his recommendations in a more close version of his proposal, now known as Senate Bill 53S
The report is expected to be finalized this summer After a period of public commentary This ends on April 8.
Excellent schools in a small town of CA
Years after the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, schools across the country, including California, continue to fight with Chronic absences., Slow profits in standardized test scores., a constant turnover of teachers and high percentages of Anxiety and depression among studentsS
But schools in a small town of Kern County It seems to be the exceptionCalmatters’ reports Carolyn JonesS In Delano, her neighborhood in elementary school is one of the least 100 areas in the country where they have the grades of the mathematics and reading pandemicS Its speed of chronic absences is also Among the largest countriesS
At the high school in Cesar E. Chavez in Delano, the degree of completion, the percentage of attendance and the percentage of students meeting the requirements for the admission course at the University of California and the California State University, exceed the average for the state. The school was also selected by the State Department of Education as National “excellent schoolS “
Unlike many nationally recognized schools, however, schools in Delano are not rich or elite. Situated in the San Joaquin Valley, it mainly teaches low -income students, Latin or Filipino, whose parents are farmers. In some schools, half are the learning English.
Understand how Delano’s schools have recovered from the pandemic.
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