Por: Los Angeles Times Politics February 10, 2023
Imagine finding out that your yard, where your kids play and your fruit and vegetables grow, is contaminated with dangerous levels of lead, a powerful, brain-damaging poison with no safe level of exposure. You wait for years for a slow-moving state bureaucracy to get around to removing soil from your yard riddled with pollution from a nearby lead-acid car battery recycling plant. Cleanup crews finally arrive to excavate and truck it out. But... + full article
Los Angeles Times USA Nation February 17, 2023
Amid California's long struggle to hold an industrial polluter accountable and remove lead contamination from neighborhoods southeast of downtown Los Angeles, members of Congress are now calling on the federal Environmental Protection Agency to assist in the troubled... + más
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Forbes USA Tech February 15, 2023
Ocean plastic collected by System 02 is hauled onto the deck of a ship.The Ocean Cleanup Ten years since its founding in 2013, The Ocean Cleanup project remains ambitious. Founder and CEO Boyan Slat says a recent $25 million donation to the effort, the largest single... + más
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Los Angeles Times USA Politics February 14, 2023
This story originally published in Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. Last year's Super Bowl was a hotbed for advertisements focused on solving the climate crisis. This year, not so much. There... + más
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The Advocate USA Business February 11, 2023
Caleb Breaux and Donald Dumas are among tens of thousands of Gulf Coast residents who took jobs cleaning up BP’s oil spill in 2010, trying to blunt the effects of the worst offshore environmental disaster in U.S. history.Breaux, 42, of Lockport, is a horticulturalist who owned... + más
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Los Angeles Times USA Nation February 10, 2023
California's largest and most expensive environmental cleanup has failed to properly remove lead pollution from some homes and neighborhoods near a notorious battery recycler in southeast Los Angeles County, leaving residents at continued risk, a Times investigation shows.... + más
Lawmakers demand EPA action on troubled cleanup of lead-contaminated L.A.-area homes | Los Angeles Times
EPA is urged to help clean up LA battery plant contamination | Associated Press
Six years ago, state officials embarked on the largest environmental cleanup in California's history, a sweeping effort to remove lead-contaminated soil from the yards of thousands of properties near a shuttered battery recycling plant in southeast Los Angeles County. For... + más
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ABC News USA Business February 02, 2023
Entrepreneur Joe Gebbia donated $25 million to The Ocean Cleanup Thursday to support the nonprofit’s efforts to remove plastic from the world’s oceans and rivers.Experts in the field welcome both the donation and the attention to the issue of ocean sustainability, pointing... + más
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