2011 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:34:08 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Los Angeles Green Zones
 
Los Angeles' 'green zone' plan is aimed at low-income, high-pollution areas

'Toxic hot spots' Pacoima, Boyle Heights and Wilmington would get incentives to attract clean industries. Polluters would be targeted with tougher inspections and enforcement.

By Louis Sahagun
Los Angeles Times
January 21, 2011


For more than four decades, a grimy, rough-edged stretch of Branford Street in Pacoima has been known as Dismantler Row: a stronghold of metal recyclers, trucking yards, rock cutters, salvage yards and auto body shops.

...

Hernandez belongs to a coalition of grassroots organizations that is backing an aggressive pollution control plan designed to clean up and green up the low-income L.A. communities of Pacoima, Boyle Heights and Wilmington — all "toxic hot spot" neighborhoods saturated with poorly controlled environmental hazards.

Under a motion to be introduced Friday by four Los Angeles City Council members, these communities would be designated as special "green zone" districts. The aim would be to attract clean industries through incentives, including help obtaining permits and tax and utility rebates. Polluters, meanwhile, would be targeted with tougher inspection and enforcement protocols.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-me-hazards-pacoima-20110121,0,770453.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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