[Source: South Coast Air Quality Management District] Today (Dec. 2, 2022), the South Coast Air Quality Management District (South Coast AQMD) Governing Board approved the 2022 Air Quality Management Plan (AQMP or Plan) that lays a path for improving air quality and meeting federal air pollution standards by 2037 for the South Coast Air Basin Read More…
Category: Local News
In historic move, Los Angeles bans new oil wells, phases out existing ones
[Source: The Los Angeles Times] The Los Angeles City Council voted Friday to phase out all oil drilling in L.A. and ban new wells, a historic move in a city that was built by a once-booming petroleum industry and whose residents have suffered with decades of environmental consequences as a result. In a 12 to Read More…
Port of Long Beach mulls alternative energies as power demand set to skyrocket
[Source: PORT Technology] The Port of Long Beach (PoLB) expects its power demand on the electricity grid “to triple or quadruple” by 2035 from increases in shoreside power and electricity-powered yard equipment. The first of nine electric rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) stacking cranes entered service at the SSA Terminal (Electric cranes mark milestone for Port of Read More…
SCAQMD doesn’t want voters to have a say on tax hike on essential businesses
[Source: Los Angeles Times] The South Coast Air Quality Management District is trying to suppress your right to vote on local taxes by pretending a major tax increase is simply a “fee,” but the law is not on the district’s side. Rules proposed by the district would require warehouses with more than 100,000 square feet Read More…
Court allows Exide to abandon a toxic site in Vernon. Taxpayers will fund the cleanup
[Source: Los Angeles Times] A bankruptcy court ruled Friday that Exide Technologies may abandon its shuttered battery recycling plant in Vernon, leaving a massive cleanup of lead and other toxic pollutants at the site and in surrounding neighborhoods to California taxpayers. The decision by Chief Judge Christopher Sontchi of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court District of Read More…
Rates likely to rise sharply: businesses may see hikes after vandalism, virus
[Source: Los Angeles Business Journal] While mass protests against police brutality were taking place just blocks away on May 31, two cars pulled up in front of Lana Negrete’s family business, the Santa Monica Music Center. People jumped out of the vehicles and ran into the store pointing guns and yelling threats at Negrete and Read More…
Covid-19 cuts deep into LA jobs
[Source: Los Angeles Business Journal] It’s no surprise that L.A.’s economy has been walloped by coronavirus-driven business shutdowns, but the extent of the damage and how much worse L.A. County has fared only became apparent with the release of data for April. The state Employment Development Department reported on May 22 that L.A. County’s April Read More…
L.A.-Long Beach ports approve truck fee too low to clean smog, groups charge
[Source: Los Angeles Times] Los Angeles and Long Beach officials voted Monday to impose a modest fee on shipping containers moving through the nation’s largest port complex, in a first step toward helping truckers replace their diesel vehicles with lower-polluting models. The decision by harbor commissioners, which followed hours of public testimony at a joint Read More…
Supervisor Kathryn Barger joins South Coast AQMD Governing Board
[Source: SCAQMD] Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger was sworn in [Friday, December 6th] as the newest member of the South Coast Air Quality Management District (South Coast AQMD) Governing Board, replacing Supervisor Janice Hahn as the County of Los Angeles’s representative. Barger was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in November Read More…