10 city council members endorse proposition 128

Ten members of the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday endorsed Proposition 128, saying the expected health benefits from the sweeping environmental initiative far outweigh the costs of

implementing the measure. Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky criticized the City’s Department of Water and Power for making what he called “exaggerations and outrageous falsifications” in its

estimate of the costs of implementing the proposition. The DWP has said it will cost the city and its rate payers more than $5 billion over the next 20 years to clean up its power plants.

DWP Board President Mike Gage, who has promised to champion an activist environmental agenda, said Wednesday that the department’s estimates are “fair, reasonable and accurate.” The City

Council will vote later this month on whether to officially endorse the ballot measure. MORE TO READ