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Paul Motel, who lives in the subdivision across the road from the battery manufacturing site, is concerned about health and safety. “Fire departments can’t even handle thermal runaway of one lithium battery in one vehicle, and they want us to house all the materials to manufacture it … a mile away from my home,” Motel said. “Just storing one of these batteries creates a dangerous situation, let alone manufacturing. Who’s going to oversee this process? OSHA? Are there going to be strict federal standards? Anyone who cares as much as I do?”
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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