Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and challenger Nithya Raman will each have a chance to lay out their plans for tackling L.A.\u2019s biggest environmental issues, and share their longer-term vision for a cleaner and healthier Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
And LAist will be asking the questions.<\/p>\n
You can listen live from 6 to 8 p.m. here on LAist 89.3 FM<\/a> and it will also be on our YouTube channel<\/a> if you prefer to watch live \u2014 or watch later.<\/p>\n Keep up with LAist.<\/p>\n If you’re enjoying this article, you’ll love our daily newsletter, The LA Report. Each weekday, catch up on the 5 most pressing stories to start your morning in 3 minutes or less. <\/p>\n LAist\u2019s award-winning climate and environmental senior reporter Erin Stone<\/a> will moderate a free forum being held at L.A. Trade Tech College<\/a> in downtown L.A. The event is free and open to the public, with tickets available here<\/a>. <\/p>\n Just don\u2019t expect finger pointing and empty sound bites: the event will take on a fireside chat-style format so that each candidate will have the opportunity to lay out their proposals for making the environment a top priority if they win the election on Nov. 3.<\/p>\n Each candidate will have 45 minutes.<\/p>\n Stone said the evening\u2019s format will allow voters to get a sense of how each candidate feels about crucial environmental issues, such as emergency preparedness and response, oil drilling, the city\u2019s transportation policy, L.A.\u2019s unique water challenges and efforts to transition to clean energy sources \u2014 all while trying to maintain affordable utility bills.<\/p>\n \u201cThe world\u2019s top scientists are clear that this decade is a critical moment in history to take action to protect future generations from worse climate and environmental harms,\u201d Stone said. \u201cI hope the conversations help voters make the decision that is right for them.\u201d<\/p>\n The event is organized by a coalition of local environmental and environmental justice groups including the Los Angeles League of Conservation Voters, SCOPE-LA, the Sierra Club, Clean and Healthy California, the Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance and Communities for a Better Environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and challenger Nithya Raman will each have a chance to lay out their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[12858,204,643,16853,48,52,51,47,50,49,32081],"class_list":["post-452205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bass","tag-election","tag-environment","tag-forum","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-raman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}