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.
Van Amburg said
growth of the industry
could be fast-tracked by
federal incentives to sup-
port charging infrastruc-
ture and purchases of
zero-emission trucks.
In New York, a package
of clean transportation
initiatives announced by
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on
Thursday includes a util-
ity-funded program to
deploy more than 50,000
charging stations by 2025.
There’s also an alloca-
tion of nearly $50 mil-
lion from the Volkswagen
diesel emissions settle-
ment to boost the use of
electric transit and school
buses and expand charging
infrastructure.
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