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8A — THE OBSERVER TuESday, July 21, 2020 NATION Man found dead may be linked to shooting at N.J. judge’s house States set goals to jump-start transition to electric trucks By Maryclaire Dale and Michael Balsamo Oregon joins 14 other states, Washington, D.C., on action plan Associated Press NORTH BRUNS- WICK, N.J. — A gunman posing as a FedEx delivery person shot and killed the 20-year-old son of a fed- eral judge and wounded her husband at their New Jersey home before fleeing, authorities said. The shooting happened Sunday evening at the North Brunswick home of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas, and killed her son, Daniel, Chief District Judge Freda Wolfson told The Associated Press. Her husband, defense lawyer Mark Anderl, was injured in the attack, Wolfson said. Investigators are exam- ining a possible connec- tion between the shooting and the body of a man found dead Monday from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in Sullivan County, New York, a law enforcement official said. The man, an attorney from New York City, is being investigated in con- nection with the shooting, the law enforcement offi- cial and a judiciary official told The Associated Press. The man had appeared before the judge in the past, the officials said. The officials could not discuss an ongoing inves- tigation publicly and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity. Daniel Anderl, Salas’ AP says it will capitalize Black but not white By David Bauder Associated Press NEW YORK — After changing its usage rules in June to capitalize the word “Black” when used in the context of race and culture, The Associated Press on Monday said it would not do the same for “white.” The AP said white people in general have much less shared history and culture, and don’t have the experience of being dis- criminated against because of skin color. Protests following the death of George Floyd, which led to discussions of policing and Confederate symbols, also prompted many news organizations to examine their own practices and staffing. The Associ- ated Press, whose Style- book is widely influential in the industry, announced June 19 it would make Black uppercase. “We agree that white people’s skin color plays into systemic inequalities and injustices, and we want our journalism to robustly explore these problems,” John Daniszewski, the AP’s vice president for standards, said in a memo to staff Monday. “But capitalizing the term white, as is done by white supremacists, risks subtly conveying legitimacy to such beliefs.” Columbia Journalism Review, the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and NBC News are among the organizations that have recently said they would capitalize Black but have not done so for white. CNN, Fox News and The San Diego Union-Tribune said they will give white the uppercase, noting it was consistent with Black, Asian, Latino and other ethnic groups. Fox cited the National Association of Black Journalists’ advice. CBS News said it would capitalize white, although not when referring to white supremacists, white nation- alists or white privilege. By Mary Esch Associated Press Photo by Mark Lennihan/Associated Press Crime scene tape surrounds the home of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas, Monday, July 20, in North Brunswick, New Jersey. A gunman posing as a delivery person shot and killed Salas’ 20-year-old son and wounded her hus- band Sunday evening at their New Jersey home before fleeing, according to judiciary officials. son, was set to be heading back shortly to The Cath- olic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he was named to the Dean’s List this spring. Esther Salas, seated in Newark, was nomi- nated by President Barack Obama and confirmed in 2011. Prior to that, she served as a U.S. Magis- trate Judge in New Jersey, after working as an assis- tant public defender for several years. Salas, born in Cali- fornia to a Cuban immi- grant mother and Mexican father, spent most of her childhood in Union City, New Jersey. After helping her family escape a devas- tating house fire, she acted as her mother’s translator and advocate, foreshad- owing her career in law as she argued her family’s case to welfare officials, according to a 2018 maga- zine profile. In the profile, Salas spoke of her son possibly following his parents into the legal profession. “He’s been arguing with us since he could talk — practicing his advocacy skills,” Salas told New Jersey Monthly. “I don’t want to dissuade him, but I was pulling for a doctor.” Just last week, Salas was appointed to hear an ongoing lawsuit brought by Deutsche Bank inves- tors who claim the com- pany made false and mis- leading statements about its anti-money laundering policies and failed to mon- itor “high-risk” customers including convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. ALBANY, N.Y. — A coalition of states is fol- lowing California’s lead in setting goals to jump- start a transition to elec- tric-powered trucks, vans and buses in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve air quality for communities choked by diesel fumes. The 15 states, plus Washington, D.C., announced last week they’ve agreed to develop an action plan aimed at having 100% of all new medium- and heavy-duty vehicles sold be zero-emis- sion by 2050, with an interim target of 30% zero-emission vehicle sales by 2030. “This is a really big deal in sending a pow- erful signal to industry with directions on where we need to be going with transportation,” said Bill Van Amburg, exec- utive vice president of CALSTART, a nonprofit consortium focused on building a clean transpor- tation industry. “You can now justify further invest- ment to develop more products.” Details are yet to be worked out. One option would be to adopt the mandate California’s Air Resources Board announced in June requiring that all new commercial trucks and vans purchased must be zero-emission by 2045, with milestones along the way. Or the states could focus more on subsidies and incentives, as well as investment in charging infrastructure. “This memorandum of understanding magni- fies what California did in adopting its regulation,” said Paul Cort, an attorney for the environmental group Earthjustice. “It tells manufacturers that they not only have to produce these trucks for California but also for these other states,” which represent the market for 40% of truck sales. The states that signed the agreement are Cali- fornia, Connecticut, Col- orado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wash- ington. The group had already committed to an action plan to foster elec- trification of passenger vehicles. “The important step will be the details that emerge from this agree- ment,” said Jimmy O’Dea, a vehicles analyst at the Union of Concerned Sci- entists. “The direction the states need to go should be in response to the urgency of the situation, both on air quality and climate change.” There are about 28 mil- lion trucks and buses — about 10% of all vehicles — in the United States, according to a 2019 report authored by O’Dea. They account for 28% of total carbon emissions in the transportation sector. Truck and engine man- ufacturers, oil companies, farming and other indus- tries opposed California’s mandate, saying it was expensive and unrealistic. Jed Mandel, president of the Truck and Engine Man- ufacturers Association, said the California rule would “collapse” for lack of charging infrastructure. 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