Posted by Damon Nagami in Curbing Pollution
Yesterday, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (Metro) Board unanimously passed a motion to support the so-called 30/10 Initiative, which my colleague Adrian Martinez and I blogged about earlier this week (here and here). This approval is a major...
Posted by Damon Nagami in Curbing Pollution
Los Angeles transportation officials will decide Thursday whether to support the 30/10 Initiative, a bold financing strategy that could benefit the region’s environment, create much-needed jobs, and reduce crippling traffic congestion all in one broad stroke. In 2008, Los...
Posted by Damon Nagami in Curbing Pollution
State and local regulators were asleep at the wheel when Plains Exploration and Production Company (PXP) embarked on a huge expansion of oil drilling operations in the Baldwin Hills community south of Los Angeles, the Associated Press reported yesterday. According...
Posted by Damon Nagami in Curbing Pollution
I’ve blogged before about a massive proposed expansion of oil drilling operations in the Baldwin Hills area of south Los Angeles, where more than a million people live within a few miles of oil operations that spew toxic substances...
Posted by Damon Nagami in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably
Last Thursday, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) approved a new light rail line in a move that could strengthen the transit network of a region that has historically under-invested in public transportation. The Crenshaw/LAX Line would start...
Posted by Damon Nagami in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice
Many Californians already know about offshore oil drilling. The controversial issue was in the spotlight during this summer's tense negotiations over California's budget, when the Assembly thankfully nixed a backroom deal to allow drilling off the Santa Barbara coast...
