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Karen Bass: “We meet our environmental goals.”

Featuring: Karen Bass, Democratic | Mayor of Los Angeles | California

As she runs for re-election, LA Mayor Karen Bass says 'I want to be able to finish this job'

Published May 15, 2026 | Video Starts at 07:00

And so I rolled out establishing and installing 60,000 copper lights. As a matter of fact, I'll be doing that later on today. So why would we continue to replace copper with copper? Solar. We meet our environmental goals. Plus there's nothing to seat steel. We're installing these lights several hundred over each month. Do you think that Spencer Pratt knows what it takes to run this? (07:00–07:03)

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Asserts that [the city] meets its environmental goals.

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