Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Koretz, 5th District, introduced three pieces of climate legislation on Nov. 21 aimed at reducing the levels of harmful greenhouse gas.

One of the motions will ban the sale of new gasoline-powered cars in stages beginning in 2028, another will create a greenhouse gas emissions fee for private jets landing at Los Angeles airports, and the third will investigate what is necessary to close the SoCal Gas Playa Vista Natural Gas Storage facility.

“We need to pull our collective heads out of the sand and face the climate crisis at the actual speed and actual scale necessary. That means ending the production of the internal combustion engine immediately, ending free private jet joy rides and closing down the ticking time bomb fossil fuel infrastructure that threatens LAX at Playa Vista,” Koretz said. “It is already far too late for the eyes of the future to look back on us in gratitude. Now with the U.N. Secretary-General warning of an already-looming global food shortage and the climate destruction of America’s two mightiest rivers – the Colorado and the Mississippi – we need to fight for any kind of future at all for humanity.”