California IN BRIEF : SACRAMENTO : Lawmaker Urges ‘a Diaper Change’
- Share via
“California needs a diaper change,” state Sen. Lucy Killea (D-San Diego) told reporters at Sacramento’s Shalom School, which welcomes infants who wear cloth diapers. Killea announced legislation that would require manufacturers of disposable diapers to warn consumers that the diapers are contributing to the nation’s garbage crisis. Saying 26% of the 266 California child-care centers she surveyed refuse to accept infants who use cloth diapers, she added that her bill also would prohibit “diaper discrimination” at child-care centers. “Single-use throwaway diapers represent the most significant consumer item entering our landfills today,” she said.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
The latest effort is coming from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. They just announced a $3 million program in conjunction with some nonprofits groups to test and clean the soil at homes still standing in the areas impacted by the Eaton Fire.
California once bet big on offshore wind to help power its clean-energy future, but the Trump administration is now paying developers billions to walk away from their projects. As California’s remaining offshore-wind leases hang in the balance, the state is fighting back in court.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
