Posted by Lizzeth Henao in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment
The California Department of Transportation (CALTRANS) wants to dramatically expand the 18 mile stretch of the I-710 freeway that runs from the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to East Los Angeles, through mostly urban, low-income, minority neighborhoods. Due...
Posted by Lizzeth Henao in Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment
The City of Maywood is the third smallest city in Los Angeles and one of its densest, with about 28,000 people living in a 1.14 square mile area. Despite the city's small size, it has faced a number of big...
Posted by Lizzeth Henao in Environmental Justice
This past Thursday, I had the privilege of representing NRDC at a school assembly for students at Los Angeles High School of the Arts. LAHSA is a small Los Angeles Unified School District pilot school located in the physical grounds...
