$14B Plan To Improve Air Quality Approved By Los Angeles, Long Beach Port Officials
“If you didn’t graduate college, the best chance in Southern California to have a dignified job and take care of your family is in the logistics industry,” said L.A. Harbor Commissioner Edward Renwick. “And at the same time, we cannot allow our children’s lungs to subsidize the cost of those jobs. It is a brutally difficult balancing act.”
KPCC:
LA, Long Beach Ports Approve Plan To Cut Air Pollution
After a marathon meeting on Thursday, the Harbor Commissioners of Los Angeles and Long Beach voted unanimously to approve the Clean Air Action Plan, which would clamp down on diesel exhaust, smog-forming chemicals, and greenhouse gas emissions from trucks, ships, cargo handling and other equipment at the ports, which are the largest source of air pollution in Southern California. Many commissioners acknowledged it was an extremely difficult issue, pitting economic competitiveness against public health and the responsibility to act on climate change. (Guerin, 11/2)
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KQED:
After Wildfires, What Happens To Fire Retardant-Soaked Crops?
Among the assessments still to be made is what impact millions of gallons of fire retardant—essentially a potent fertilizer—may have on carefully tended plants and soils. (Cart, 11/2)
Santa Rosa Press Democrat:
EPA Finished With Hazardous Waste Cleanup At One-Third Of Destroyed Sonoma County Homes
Hundreds of fire-scorched 5-gallon propane tanks were piled Thursday at a Windsor industrial park, a collection point for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s removal of household hazardous waste in the wake of the North Bay wildfires. More than 8,300 containers of hazardous waste have been picked up by EPA teams working on nearly 7,000 residential, commercial and public properties in Sonoma and Napa counties since the work started last week as the first phase of the government-funded post-fire cleanup. (Kovner, 11/2)