EPA Denies Clean Air Waiver Act To Cut Auto Emissions; WGA Strike's Impact On the Local Economy; Inland Empire Journalists Roundtable; The Child Care Industry And The Underground Economy
EPA Denies Clean Air Waiver Act To Cut Auto Emissions
The State of California, along with 16 other states, was denied a waiver yesterday that would allow it to regulate CO2 emissions for automobiles. This represents a serious challenge to the Schwarzenegger administration's efforts to reduce green house gases. Larry talks with Senator Barbara Boxer, Tom Cackette, manager of California Air Resources Board's motor vehicle emission control program, and Ann Carlson, Professor of Law and Faculty Director and UCLA's Environmental Law Center about the impact of this EPA recommendation.
WGA Strike's Impact On the Local Economy
As production slows, gaffers, caterers and teamsters are also taking an economic hit. This has a ripple effect across industries that are seemingly unrelated to the movie biz. Larry and guests Howard Rodman, board member of the WGA, Jack Kyser, Chief Economist with the LAEDC, the Los Angeles Economic Development Corportation, and Steve McDonald, President of FILM LA discuss the strike's blow to the local economy.
Inland Empire Journalists Roundtable
Larry Mantle talks with Steven Cuevas, KPCC's Inland Empire Reporter, and Cassie MacDuff, columnist with The Press Enterprise, about the latest news, events, and developments in the Inland Empire.
The Child Care Industry And The Underground Economy
By one estimate, there are 90,000 undocumented immigrants working as nannies in LA County. This underground economy changes diapers and feeds and dresses thousands of area children, but are these workers treated fairly by the parents of the children they care for? Larry talks to Xiomara Corpeno, director of organizing for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, and Christopher Cameron, associate dean and professor of law at Southwestern University School of Law about the underground nanny economy.