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Newton: What about the Port of Los Angeles?
It's fun for mayoral candidates to imagine eliminating potholes or building new trains to link the Valley to the Westside. It's not hard to support a spiffed-up LAX (really, what's hard to believe is that it's taken this long) or legions of new police...
Tags: Eric Garcetti, Environmental Issues, Jim Newton, Elections, Los Angeles Times Columnists
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Bay Area air pollution reaches Devils Postpile National Monument
That fresh, pine-scented mountain air that you happily breathe in the Sierra Nevada could be hazardous to your health. Samples taken by federal scientists in Devils Postpile National Monument, southeast of Yosemite National Park, show that ozone...
Tags: Yosemite National Park, Conservation, Environmental Issues, Standards, Environmental Pollution
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O.C. supervisors oppose proposed ban on fire rings
The Orange County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday formally opposed a call by air-quality regulators to snuff out beach bonfires in much of Southern California. Supervisors urged the South Coast Air Quality Managment District to drop a proposed ban on...Tags: Environmental Issues, Elections, Allan R. Mansoor, Environmental Pollution, Politics
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Region's air generally healthy, though Orange County's ozone levels not very good
The air is typically terrible in Los Angeles, Houston and Washington. By contrast, most every breath is refreshingly clean in Bellingham, Wash.; Cheyenne, Wyo.; and Asheville, N.C. Somewhere in between is Florida, where the air quality is decent —...
Tags: Environmental Issues, American Lung Association, DeLand, Orange County (Florida), Hillsborough County
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California suspends operations at Vernon battery recycler
State regulators took the highly unusual step Wednesday of suspending operations at a Vernon battery recycler that has discharged harmful quantities of lead for years and more recently has been deemed to pose a danger to as many as 110,000 people...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Hazardous Materials, Exide Technologies, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Latest South Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment
SPRING STORM FUND Foundation accepts donations for storm recovery SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Some Sioux Falls residents hit hard by the recent ice storm don't have the money to clean up the mess. That's why officials with the Sioux Falls Area...Tags: Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Government Health Care, Dennis Daugaard, Veterans Affairs
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In The Pipeline: Anti fire-ring AQMD member's odd resignation
The bonfire fight has never been hotter (or weirder) then it is right now. On April 12, I went to visit Assemblyman Allan Mansoor in his Costa Mesa office. I have been in touch with a number of local elected officials about the looming draconian ban...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Authors, Book, Allan R. Mansoor, Environmental Pollution
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Commentary: Local control is the answer to fire ring debate
When I was growing up in Costa Mesa in the '70s and '80s, I remember the days of poor air quality and smog alerts. Whenever there was a smog alert, recess activities were severely limited at local schools. This happened frequently. Things are...Tags: Environmental Issues, Environmental Pollution
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Imperial County gets failing air quality grade from lung association
Staff Writer, Copy EditorIn spite of the strides made over the past four decades toward improved air quality, 42 percent of Americans still live in counties that have unhealthy levels of either ozone or particle pollution. Imperial County residents can count themselves among...Tags: Environmental Issues, American Lung Association, Corporate Officers, Asthma, Heart Attack
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Dual-serving coastal commissioner resigns under fire
California Coastal Commissioner William Burke — who vocally supported dousing beach bonfires in Newport Beach and Huntington Beach — has resigned amid pressure from two state legislators. Burke is chairman of the South Coast Air Quality...Tags: Environmental Issues, John A. Perez, Allan R. Mansoor, Sports, Environmental Pollution
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Our View: Hopes raised for better air quality
So much has already been said about Imperial County’s air pollution, but in a state that appears to be winning the battle of historically horrible air quality, particularly in the Los Angeles basin, there is hope yet for the air we breathe here....Tags: Environmental Issues, Asthma, Environmental Pollution
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Coastal commissioner resigns after Vietnam 'carpet bombing' remark
A state coastal commissioner who vocally supported banning beach bonfires along a stretch of Orange County coastline has resigned under growing pressure from two state legislators. William Burke was serving as both a member of the state Coastal...
Tags: Environmental Issues, John A. Perez, Allan R. Mansoor, Sports, Kamala D. Harris
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