Cambridge city councilors are considering banning gas-powered lawn equipment.
"The environmental justice issue of the health of the workers has become more and more paramount," councilor Patricia Nolan said during a council meeting Monday, April 24. "There is more and more evidence that the workers who are using these gas-powered machines are experiencing respiratory distress, that they have long-time hearing loss."
Former Harvard professor Charles Lieber was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Boston to time served for lying about his research ties to China and fined more than $83,000 for not paying taxes on money he made from a Chinese university.
Prosecutors say Lieber lied about his involvement with China's Thousand Talents Plan, an enterprise of the Chinese government that recruits scientists and other experts from outside China, according to the Associated Press. Lieber specifically worked with the Wuhan University of Technology.
