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The deal marks a record for the Los Angeles area. The previous residential record was set late last year, when media executive Lachlan Murdoch paid roughly $150 million for Chartwell, a Bel-Air estate used as the Clampett residence in the television show “The Beverly Hillbillies.”
On 9 acres in Beverly Hills, the Warner Estate was designed in the 1930s for Jack Warner, the late former president of entertainment giant Warner Bros. The property had expansive terraces, sprawling gardens, several guest houses, […]
Runaway inequality is eroding trust in democratic societies and paving the way for authoritarian and nativist regimes to take root, according to But in many countries, including the United States, such initiatives have been blocked by “economic elites” because they inevitably challenge the interests of certain individuals and groups, the report says, affecting the balance of power in nations that pursue greater economic redistribution.
The broad contours of income and wealth inequality in the United States are, at this point, well-known. The top 1 percent of households have roughly doubled their share of the nation’s wealth since 1980, leaving less behind for everyone else. The […]
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Major cities are flooding more than was previously thought. This news comes from a new study published in the journal Nature Communications that used Twitter to measure the impact of tidal flooding along the U.S. Gulf and East coasts. The data show that flooding happens more frequently in some areas than what current flood monitoring tech has been able to detect.
The study analyzed data from 473,000 tweets sent by more than 5 million Twitter users from at least 273 different counties. With the data, researches were able to see a trend in which 22 counties had flooding at tide heights lower than the areas’ existing flood thresholds. Miami, Boston, and New York were among the large cities that were mentioned in the study. These were identified as locations that have been seeing nuisance flooding that has often gone undetected by tide gauges.
The 109-year-old Elk Hills Field in western Kern County, California, is one of California Resources Corp.’s most important operations. But nearly 1,400 of its oil and gas wells there sit idle. This article is a partnership between the Center for Public Integrity and the Los Angeles Times. INTRODUCTION The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates betrayals of public trust. Sign up to receive our stories. ARVIN, Calif. — Across much of California, fossil fuel companies are leaving thousands of oil and gas wells unplugged and idle, potentially threatening the health of people living nearby and handing taxpayers a multibillion-dollar bill for the environmental cleanup. From Kern County to Los Angeles, companies haven’t set aside anywhere near enough money to ensure these drilling sites are cleaned up and made safe for future generations, according to a months-long data analysis and investigation by the Los Angeles Times and the Center for Public Integrity. Of particular concern are about 35,000 wells […]
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