October 8, 2021 Media Brief
Orange County
Voice of OC: State and federal officials cut off regular, public updates of massive OC oil spill
That so-called unified command announced Friday morning it will no longer make authorities available for public questioning until “new significant information becomes available.” It comes as authorities are leaning on volunteers to fill in the gaps on cleanup worker demand.
Voice of OC: A father-son boat charter business survived the pandemic, now they face an oil spill
“We instantly lost reservations. We had emails coming in. We probably lost three or four right away due to the oil spill on Sunday,” operator Robert Wagner said. “I cancelled the charters for all of the week but then even this weekend coming up people were emailing to cancel theirs and possibly reschedule in the future.”
Voice of OC: Why didn’t an auto shut-off system prevent the massive oil leak off OC’s coast
The pipeline that caused a massive oil spill this weekend was supposed to have automatic shut-off equipment to immediately stop oil spills and alert a control room, according to a copy of the original 1979 approval records reviewed by Voice of OC.
Voice of OC: Orange County awaits oil spill investigators’ arrival
For a week, Orange County residents and officials have waited for a definitive answer as to who, beyond Amplify Energy, came up short in responding to an oil spill off the coast — and who’s going to be held responsible. No answers to that question have come beyond speculation at news conferences and in the media.
Voice of OC: Anaheim council members and OC supervisors won't have to hear from more residents
Newsom vetoed Assembly Bill 339 Thursday evening, which would’ve mandated cities and counties with more than 250,000 people in their jurisdictions to open up for telephone or internet-based public comments.
OC Register: COVID-19, extra missions added to failures in deadly Marine training accident
While there were communication failures between the Navy and Marines in a fatal training accident last year, other factors such as the impact on manpower from the coronavirus pandemic and deployments to the Middle East also played a role, two newly released military investigations say.
Labor
Labor 411: Former Pepsi CEO: I cannot imagine working for somebody and saying I don’t get paid enough
Former Pepsi Co. Chief Executive Officer Indra Nooyi, one of few women of color to ever run a large public U.S. company, said she’s never asked for a raise and once turned one down during the financial crisis.
California
KTLA: California becomes 1st state to make ethnic studies a required class for high school graduation
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Friday that makes California among the first in the nation to list ethnic studies as a graduation requirement for all public high school students. Assemblyman Jose Medina, a Democrat from Riverside authored the legislation that has been years in the making.
Nation
Associated Press: Anti-vaccine chiropractors rising force of misinformation
The featured speaker was the anti-vaccine activist who appeared in the 2020 movie “Plandemic,” which pushed false COVID-19 stories into the mainstream. The convention was organized by members of a profession that has become a major purveyor of vaccine misinformation during the pandemic: chiropractors.
Publication Date: October 8, 2021
