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World. >> that is not true. we don't have the cleanest air and water in the world. we don't. according to -- well you get back to me with statistics to show it. >> we're making progress on reducing carbon emissions through technology, through natural gas, through continuing to support as our administration -- >> you just rolled back the clean coal -- >> turn back to nuclear energy and clean energy but the answer is not to raise the utility rates of millions of utility rate payers. >> you just launched your re-election bid on tuesday for 2020. >> we did. >> if foreigners or russia or china offe...

General manager has decided to step down. the company releases its long-awaited ipo filing. and with fire season coming, we find out what could happen to utility rates if it's another devastating year. you're probably not going to like it. abc7 news at 6:00 starts now. >> live where you live, this is abc7 news. >> so we kind of need a general manager that is a bit of a magician. >> help wanted to fill the biggest role at bart. good evening. thank you for joining us. i'm ama daetz. >> and i'm dion lim. twice in two weeks big departures for bart. >> last week it was the police chief, carlos ...

Country and that most americans believe that we have to invest in our infrastructure. we also set aside some funds to mitigate higher utility rates for lower income americans. that is the key, and we know this is true because in miami recently they just passed a $200 million bond referendum, a property tax increase to fund coastal infrastructure because the citizens understood that the funds would be put to good use, in other words to protect them. >> it does seem as if the regressive nature perhaps, anne, how do you -- you know, again, the person that doesn't live near an easy-to-access publi...

We put most of it to infrastructure. that's popular in this country and most believe we have to invest in our infrastructure. we also set aside some funds to mitigate higher utility rates for lower income americans. that is the key. and we know this is true because in miami, recently they just passed a $200 million bond referendum, property tax increase to fund coastal infrastructure because the citizens understood the funds were going to be put to good united states to protect them. >> it does seem as if the regressive nature perhaps, anne. how do you -- the person that doesn't live near an e...

That is 101 utilities. electric utilities have cut their rate because they are paying lower taxes. that's going to impact everybody who gets their juice from those companies. >> absolutely. we have got the list of those on our website. it's 100 million american households and small businesses. 100 million americans households and small business also have lower utility rates. why? because utilities pay taxes just like any other business when we cut the tax rate on businesses it's about $3 billion that flows straight to all your listens, everybody who has water, utility, electricity. the democra...