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LA City Council Trio Takes Aim at Lung Disease Impacting Countertop Workers

City News Service | Los Angeles Daily News

“Silicosis disproportionately affects low-income, immigrant workers in industries such as construction and manufacturing,” Rodriguez said in a statement.

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South LA organizations plan launch of new e-bike program

Taylor Torregano | SpectrumNews1

LOS ANGELES — As the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference kicks off in Dubai, local community organizations are also launching new efforts to reduce carbon emissions and improve air quality, particularly neighborhoods that are most susceptible to high pollution.

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Los Angeles hid a methane leak for a year. Activists want the power plant shut down

Sammy Roth | Los Angeles Times

Andres Ramirez doesn’t know who scrawled the words “SHUT DOWN THE PLANT” across a cinder-block wall outside Valley Generating Station, where red and white smokestacks tower over the northeast corner of the San Fernando Valley.

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Methane Gas Leak Protest

The San Fernando Valley Sun

Sun Valley residents and activists marched from Alliance High School to the LA Dept. of Water and Power’s Valley Generating power station on Tuesday, Sept.8, to protest the methane gas leak occurring at the facility. LADWP first acknowledged the leak on Aug.

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Residents and activists protest outside the LADWP plant in Sun Valley

Residentes de Sun Valley: ‘Queremos que pare la fuga de metano’

Virginia Gaglianone | La Opinión

María Madrigal ha vivido en el mismo vecindario de Sun Valley, en el Valle de San Fernando, por los últimos 33 años.

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LADWP transparency broke down in midst of Sun Valley methane leak, officials say

Ryan Carter | Los Angeles Daily News

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power on Tuesday, Sept.

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Valley Gas Plant Stacks

Community calls for immediate fix to methane leak at Valley Generating Station

Los Angeles – Pacoima Beautiful leads a march and rally in Sun Valley to voice outrage over a methane leak in their community that has existed for more than a year.

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Electric vehicle rental program to be rolled out in Pacoima

Elizabeth Chou | Los Angeles Daily News

A Pacoima nonprofit will be experimenting with an electric vehicle “car-sharing” program as a way to give families in the northeast San Fernando Valley an additional way of getting around.

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LACI Launches Pilot Projects to Improve Air Quality And First/Last Mile Zero Emissions Mobility Solutions in underserved Los Angeles Communities

LACI News

The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) announced the recipients of the Zero Emissions Mobility and Community Pilot Project Fund today.

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Esta organización inspira a jóvenes para que sean agentes de cambio en su comunidad

Univision

Pacoima Beautiful es una organización sin fines de lucro enfocada en la justicia ambiental. Además de proveer servicios a los residentes del Valle de San Fernando, educan a niños, adolescentes, adultos y ancianos para que contribuyan positivamente en sus comunidades.

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Joaquín Flores

Celebrating the Life and Giving Spirit of Sr. Joaquín Flores

Pacoima Beautiful desea darle las gracias a Sr. Flores quien en vida fue uno de nuestros donadores de frutas locales, desde los inicios del programa Mercado Pacoima.

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2019 AQMD award winners: Carlos Regalado, Yesenia Cruz and Diego Ortiz

Recognizing Pacoima Youth as Clean Air Heroes for the Environmental Protection work done in their frontline neighborhoods.

Pacoima, CA – October 4, 2019, The South Coast Air Quality Management District recognized Pacoima Beautiful’s Youth United Towards Environmental Protection (YUTEP) group as the South Coast Air Quality Management District’s 

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Valley Gas Plant through fence

Jóvenes piden transición de la planta de gas del Valle de San Fernando a energía renovable

Virginia Gaglianone | La Opinión

A medida que aumenta la concientización sobre la importancia del medio ambiente, los métodos de producción de energía que contaminan el aire van caducando y desapareciendo, dando lugar a sistemas de energía renovable.

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Pacoima, Sun Valley youth are a part of a ‘front-line’ community affected by climate change, say local group

Elizabeth Chou | Los Angeles Daily News

For 17-year-old Michelle Gutierrez, the youth rally held Friday in downtown Los Angeles and across the nation to raise awareness about the urgency of climate change was deeply personal.

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Volunteers and partners at Pacoima’s Wheelchair Wash and Resource Fair

Our Member Martin Received a Surprise Visit From Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez: Here’s Why

Aside from their cleaning gloves and work badges, the smiles you see above are what all our volunteers and partners were wearing for Pacoima’s first ever Wheelchair Wash and Resource Fair.

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