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Does it smell like this where you live?

February 6, 2010

Posted by Jessica Lass in Environmental Justice

Tags:
airpollution, asthma, conocophillips, dieselpollution, environmentaljustice, particulatepollution, portoflosangeles, rendering, vernonpowerplant

“No, it doesn’t,” was my answer to a Commerce High School student as we stood with a group of 25 other strangers at an intersection surrounded by three rendering plants in Huntington Park, a neighborhood of South Central Los Angeles....

When the LA Air Tastes Like Burning

April 7, 2009

Posted by Jessica Lass in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment

Tags:
bus, dieselparticulate, dieselpollution, eastla, marathons, publictransit, rail, transitpeople, transitrace

You know the winded feeling you get after exerting yourself a bit too much for too long? For me, that feeling usually happens with running, mainly since it isn't my favorite form of exercise and I don't find myself sprinting...

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