2024
- STORY: Green New Deal hard to meaningfully track
- DATA: as of 2022 – LA emissions down 36% (from 1990 benchmark)
- Aiming for 50% 2025
- 73% by 2035
- Carbon Neutral by 2050
- DATA: LA electricity grid is 40% renewable energy
- City Goal is 100% by 2035 (needs to go up 6% YoY for next 10 years)
- STORY: 237 Sewage Spills in 2023
- DATA: LA Ocean Water / Beach report card (from Heal The Bay)
- DATA: LA Ocean Water Testing (Surfrider Foundation)
- DATA: LA freshwater report card (from Heal The Bay)
- DATA: LA tapwater report card (from Environmental Working Group EWG)
- DATA: spills tracked by state water board
- DATA: 107 total unhealthy air days in LA in 2024
- DATA: Air Quality Tracking from EPA
- DATA: Greenhouse Gas Emissions from EPA
- STORY: Garcetti set out to plant 90,000 trees by 2021 – didnt happen – plan needs updating
- STORY:Million Trees LA
- DATA: Tree Database
- STORY: City wants to increase tree canopy 50% by 2028
- RESOURCE: https://www.cityplants.org/