Less than three weeks before early voting begins, some of the LA mayoral candidates debated environmental issues the evening before Earth Day.
LOS ANGELES -- Less than three weeks before early voting begins, some of the candidates running for mayor of Los Angeles debated environmental issues Thursday night, the day before Earth Day.
"Second, important for us to recycle our water. Other jurisdictions have done it. Orange County has done it. There are some who advocate for desalinization. It's too expensive, energy intensive, has environmental consequence, shouldn't do it. Recycling instead,""If we want to be the city of the future, we can no longer rely on snowpacks in the sierras as well as Shasta," de Leon said.
Feuer said:"There's a number of transit-dependent people in our community for whom busses are not working well. They don't come as frequently as they should along our most traveled routes. As an MTA official, I'm going to expand the number of busses on those most traveled routes." "I've already secured $27 million in my district alone for the creation of new parks so our children - regardless of the color of their skin, regardless of their legal status or what god they pray to or who they love - can have green grass grow under their feet," said de Leon.
"That beautiful South Park that I grew up with for a while became quite dangerous so we have to look at combining public safety issues along with parks," said Bass.On the topic of environmental justice, here's what the candidates said about how where someone lives shouldn't determine how long they live.