Source of this article, the Los Angeles Times, May 19, 2024 California will receive more than $35 million in federal funding to help address the scourge of abandoned oil wells that are leaking dangerous chemicals and planet-warming methane in areas across the state, including many in Los Angeles. The investment Read more…
Oil Company Waited 41 Years to Clean Up ‘Hazardous Cesspool’ Source of this article, the Santa Barbara Independent, June 14, 2023 Last week, a Santa Maria jury found Unocal (a k a Union Oil) — and its parent company, Chevron — reprehensibly negligent for waiting 41 years to clean up a benzene-laden underground waste sump in Read more…
Patagonia made him a billionaire. Now he’s giving it away to save the climate Source of this article: the Los Angeles Times, September 14, 2022 Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard is giving his company away — to planet Earth, he announced Wednesday. “I never wanted to be a businessman,” Chouinard wrote Read more…
The agreement requires Boeing to monitor stormwater runoff for 195 pollutants after the company completes a cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Lab. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, August 13, 2022 Despite the heated objections of neighbors and environmentalists, the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board Read more…
California has reached a settlement with the federal government to halt new oil and gas leases on public lands in Central California. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, August 3, 2022 California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta announced Monday that the state has reached a settlement with the federal Read more…
Barrels of DDT waste — along with other chemicals — were likely poured directly into the ocean near Catalina Island, according to federal regulators. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, August 4, 2022 After an exhaustive historical investigation into the barrels of DDT waste reportedly dumped decades ago Read more…
Legislation heads off what would have been costly and contentious ballot measure. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, July 1, 2022 SACRAMENTO — Striking a blow against a pernicious form of pollution, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Thursday the nation’s most far-reaching restrictions on single-use plastics and packaging. The Read more…
Thorough Environmental Review Required Before Fracking or Acidizing of Offshore Oil Wells Source of this article: The Santa Barbara Independent, June 3, 2022 In a long series of court proceedings, permits allowing the fracking and acidizing of oil wells in federal waters off the coast of California were prohibited by Read more…
Industry sends fliers falsely claiming the consumers will bear cost of tighter rules Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, May 23, 2022 Cheryl Auger was stunned this month when one of her Pasadena neighbors and friends received a flier in the mail featuring her state assemblyman, with a Read more…
Environmental health scientists and toxicologists have identified more than 40 DDT-related compounds accumulating in California condors. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, May 22, 2022 When Christopher Tubbs joined an ambitious multinational effort to save California condors from the brink of extinction, he knew the odds of success Read more…