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Pacoima Wash Grand Opening

Pacoima Beautiful, City of San Fernando Unveil Pacoima Wash Greenway

San Fernando Sun

Amidst an intense heat wave, officials from the City of San Fernando and the nonprofit Pacoima Beautiful held the grand opening of the Pacoima Wash Greenway, meant to transform the corridor into something greener and more climate-resilient for the community.

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Ribbon Cutting

Pacoima Wash Greenway opens

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A new greenway is officially open in the San Fernando Valley. The project turns a stretch of flood-controlled channel into a community space.

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People's Collaborative Academy

Water is Life: A Community-Led Vision for Environmental Justice in Pacoima

The Water Foundation

Pacoima has long been shaped by water. Its name means “the entrance,” a nod to its place at the base of the mountains and once home to a vibrant, free-flowing river.

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News and Press

Community calls for the shutdown of Whiteman Airport

Time to close Whiteman Airport

Los Angeles – Pacoima Beautiful, the leading San Fernando Valley environmental justice organization, calls upon the County of Los Angeles to close and support the redevelopment of the Whiteman Airport in the wake of another small plane crash last week.

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Whiteman Airport Accident on November 12, 2020

Pacoima Beautiful would like to extend our sincere condolences to the family and friends of the pilot impacted by his or her tragic passing, we are truly sorry for your loss. And we wish you healing and peace during this difficult time.

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The health of the Northeast Valley community finally prioritized as City Council President submits motion calling for a sunset date to gas operations at the Valley Generating Station

Los Angeles – After news broke of a methane leak at the Valley Gas Plant, Pacoima Beautiful escalated advocacy efforts to secure a clean energy future for the Northeast San Fernando Valley through the Clean Energy for the NESFV first! campaign.

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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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Electro Ride Share

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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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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