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Calabasas Landfill challenge loses in court

  • Bias Rating

    34% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

    35% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    40% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    16% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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-47% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Among their arguments was that the stated role of the federal Environmental Protection Agency is to transport materials to designated staging areas, not to take debris to any particular landfill, hence the judge could order the county to enforce the rule against non-hazardous waste going to Calabasas.
45% : He expressed sympathy with the city's concerns but found that existing state regulations allowed the disposal of fire debris at the landfill.
38% : " Days in court With residents and officials up in arms over the plan to bring toxic ash to Calabasas's Class III landfill -- permitted to accept non-hazardous solid municipal waste -- the city last week sued L.A. County and its Sanitation District No. 2, owner and operator of the facility, respectively.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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