for what they call unfair pay and demeaning treatment. this follows similar lawsuits filed by cheerleaders from the oakland raiders and the cincinnati bengals. made in china. tesla plans to begin manufacturing electric cars in china in the next three to four years. china s government is encouraging the adoption of electric cars as country faces a growing air pollution problem. the recall crisis at general motors almost wiped out first quarter profits. the company made just $108 million in the first three months of year and says fixing all those recalled cars will cost $1.3 billion. time now for the buzz. stocks split, price hike, tony soprano on demand. let s put 90 seconds on the clock. let s talk netflix first. we heard how netflix raising prices for new subskripers but it s still a darling of wall street. you look at the 12-month chart. phenomenal stock. it s come back a little bit this year. i think people are worried about the valuation with reason but
what do you do with this stuff when it reaches the shore? so kind of the thrust of the article you refer to was that we have a limited array of tools at our disposal. you could remove the sentiment that s polluted at the shore. that s expensive an you re talking about environments going away by erosion naturally too fast. if we remove sediment we take away land we like to preserve and make the land that remains susceptible to erosion. burning, again, you have the air pollution problem. but there might be a pr angle where it s better to look at charred earth than marsh grasses coated with oil but how effective is it? only a small fraction of oil would be burned off the surface as it infiltrates into the soil. is seems to me, dr. yeager, we don t know how bad this is or
start talking about much bigger business and much bigger problems? out on the west coast the port of los angeles is one of the busiest in the world, yet they are finding ways to reduce their impact on the environment. in today s green solutions in focus, gabe ramirez takes us there. the port of los angeles is the largest container port in the united states. so no matter where you live in the united states, you have things that you wear, in your home that came through our port complex. i would say about a decade ago, the ports weren t even acknowledging that they created an air pollution problem for local residents. we have seen higher rates of childhood asthma, cancer clusters, premature deaths linked to diesel pollution created by all the ships, trucks and trains that visit our ports daily. they actually produce more
smog-forming pollution than all six million cars in the region. when all of the sudden it was shown that we could be affecting human health, that s when the whole thing changed. that s when expansion at this port came to a grinding halt. we realized, we re going to have to eliminate health risk of port operations on the community. ever since that time, i think the port and nrdc have been able to move together collaboratively to try to address the air pollution problem there. a ship that sits at the berth spews out a ton of emissions a day. if we hook them to shoreside electrical power, there is a huge savings in emissions for the local community. we have reduced the emissions from trucks coming in and out of this port by 80%. so what is the truck of the future? it s an all electric truck with enough battery life that it can