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Local communities gained a say in decisions that affect air pollution in the harbor area with the passage of AB617.
Read MoreVirtual Social and Talk — California Alive
Susan Deo gave a tour of California’s natural regions Feb. 21. Watch the recording.
Read MoreRacism, Covid-19 and Oil Drilling Are Conected
By Melanie Cohen, Conservation Co-Chair California has long produced some of the dirtiest, most carbon-intensive crude oil in the world, with operations taking place dangerously close to homes, schools, hospitals and other sensitive sites. Proximity to oil development is associated…
Read MoreTrump Administration’s Current Assault On Environmental Laws
By Dave Wiggins, Al Sattler and Steve Dillow For several months, the attention of America’s citizens, and its press, has been focused in large part on the Covid-19 pandemic now sweeping the world, and the dramatic impact it has had…
Read MoreThe Gnatcatcher Saves Coastal Habitat
By Barbara Dye, former Executive Director of the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy The Rancho Palos Verdes Natural Communities Conservation Plan (NCCP), which gave us the nature preserve, all started because of a small, gray bird, the coastal California gnatcatcher,…
Read MoreFire Drill Friday
by Bill Lavoie, Membership Chair Jane Fonda responded to teen climate activist Greta Thunberg’s alarm: “We have to act life our house is on fire–because it is!” For 14 weeks she and other activists – celebrities and unknowns – protested…
Read MoreMitigation measures won’t stop deadly HF, says Chemical Safety Board
The SCAQMD failed the community too, but there’s still hope By Steve Dillow, Conservation Co-Chair Following the June explosion at a Philadelphia refinery, which caused it to permanently close, our local refinery spokesman bragged that it proved that their mitigation…
Read MoreAQMD Bows to Industry, Says No HF Ban
On June 22, the AQMD Refinery Committee voted 3-2 to allow tons of toxic volatile hydrogen fluoride (HF) to remain at two local refineries, Torrance PBF and Wilmington Valero. The refineries will add more water sprays, pumps, sensors, and video…
Read MoreDeadly MHF: David v. Goliath
By Steve Goldsmith, TRAA The campaign to remove Hydrogen Fluoride (HF) from two South Bay refineries took a new turn at the Feb. 1 Southern Calif. Air Quality Management (SCAQMD) Board meeting. Been following this David-and-Goliath baLle? Then you…
Read MoreJoin Us to Halt the Toxic Threat
By Al Sattler, Group Chair A crucial meeting of the AQMD Board will be held Friday morning Feb. 1 in Diamond Bar. We need as many people as possible to attend this meeting to tell the board that we want…
Read MoreWhy Are Our Trees Dying?
By Emile Fiesler, environmental consultant Southern California has a new challenge: a new species of fungus. The fungus was unknown to science until 2013, when it was described and given the scientific name Fusarium euwallacea and common name fusarium dieback….
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Climate Change Is Here Now —
In Local Preserves and Your Backyard. What You Can Do to Lessen the Damage By Dr. Constance M. Vadheim, Emeritus Professor of Biology, CSUDH At our April quarterly meeting, Dr. Vadheim spoke on how climate change is starting to affect us…
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