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LAist is part of Southern California Public Radio, a member-supported public media network. For the latest national news from NPR and our live radio broadcast, visitLos Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón marked his first year in office at a press conference on Dec. 8, 2021. He's now running for reelection.Nine candidates seeking to unseat L.A.
The district attorney enacted a sweeping set of reforms when he took office. They resulted in a dramatic reduction in theinvolved in shootings and other uses of force, filing charges against 15 officers over three years. The previous two DA’s filed charges against two officers over nearly 20 years. Up until the shooting, Monterey Park was best-known for being America’s first suburban Chinatown, with a population of 62,000 that is two-thirds Asian.
The MPK Hope Resiliency Center, as it is officially called, has been averaging about 80 visits a week since it fully opened in September. It’s a number that staff want to increase, given the hundreds of people they could be potentially serving along with partner organizations such as Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California and the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office.The qigong instructor, Dr. Sara Ptasnik is a physician at the Chinatown Service Center.
Share how you went to a therapist for a problem, like with work or school. Then list the ways a therapist has helped.If the elder is not interested in traditional therapy, see if they would like to talk to someone at church or temple.That’s the experience of staff at the resiliency center in Las Vegas. In 2017, a gunman killed 60 people and injured hundreds of others at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip attended by thousands.
When the federal grant ended after four years, the Nevada state and Clark County government ponied up funding to keep the center open, and to extend services to other crime victims who were not part of the shooting, Winkler said.. Many of the child survivors of the 2014 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are now graduating high school, its executive director noted.For the staff at the center in Monterey Park, staying open long-term is the goal.
Hung in the lobby were blue paper hearts honoring the shooting victims. They had been displayed outside Monterey Park City Hall on signposts for months before being moved to their permanent home with the center. As a student at Huntington Park High in the early 2000s, Milton Hernandez Nimatuj said they often woke up to the stench of dead animals.
Milton Hernandez Nimatuj photographed at the Huntington Park High School football field where he performed while in the marching band as a student.In interviews with LAist, many Southeast L.A. residents — including local elected officials, environmental justice activists, and other community members — acknowledge that rendering companies play an important role in reducing food waste. They also acknowledge that community members who live nearby have to cope with smells that can be severe.
Hernandez Nimatuj now works at the nonprofit as a program director and has helped lead “Toxic Tours.” In Southeast L.A., this often includes pit stops at their old elementary schools, as well as the site of a scrap metal recycler in Maywood thatThe guides also take participants to the now-shuttered Exide battery recycling plant in Vernon, which spewed lead and arsenic intoDilia Ortega and Rossmery Zayas, both longtime residents of Southeast L.A., have led dozens of “Toxic Tours.
“Rendering plants are something that everyone is aware of, but may not be able to name,” Lopez said."Community members might say, ‘It smells like dead dog’ or, ‘It smells like throw up,’" he added, but, “everyone knows the smell.” Last fall, she voiced her frustration in an email to AQMD, calling for Baker’s shut down until the company comes into compliance with odor rules.
Community members don’t dispute that rendering work at Baker is a positive alternative to having animal remains pile up in trash cans and landfills. But in interviews with LAist, many of them expressed distrust in so-called “green” businesses that recycle industrial byproducts. L.A. County staff now have 90 days to report back with recommendations “to curtail the selling, leasing, or renting of Recreational Vehicles and oversized vessels in the public right-of-way.”
On alert days, “smoke’s there when you wake up in the morning, it’s there when you’re going to bed at night,” said Michelle King, the assistant director of the Louisville metro air pollution control district. But these exceptional events are no longer exceptional, and the requests to obscure them from air-quality records are more common, according to an investigation from the Guardian, The California Newsroom and MuckRock. Without reform, the exceptional events rule is likely to become a regularly used tool, one that experts warn may divert resources or distract from addressing the growing problem of wildfire smoke.
A warming climate has helped to set the stage for wildfires to burn hotter and bigger. “Stopping them or making them less severe is going to be very hard and going to involve intervention on a scale that we’re just currently not prepared or able to do,” said the environmental scientist Marshall Burke, one of the leaders of Stanford’s work.
Dave Jefferis hands a flag he rescued from burning to his neighbor, Jim Marchio. Both stayed behind to defend their homes from the River Fire Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021.“There’s going to be much more pressure on regulatory agencies to take advantage of exceptional events,” added Carb’s Benjamin.
“Just because they scrub that out of the record doesn’t mean that smoke isn’t in their lungs,” he said. Similarly, the Western Governors’ Association has argued for greater state flexibility, complaining both that “the rule is resource intensive, costly, and place a significant burden on strained state resources,” and that regulators are slow to act on it. The nonpartisan association suggested to lawmakers that rules should permit more complicated multistate exceptions.The EPA, for its part, maintains it is following the law.
Though the EPA strips exceptional events-related data from regulatory use, epidemiologists and health experts continue to analyze air quality using unmodified data,. In its annual State of the Air report, the American Lung Association has always included pollution exceedances that exceptional events would leave out, said Will Barrett, a clean-air expert for the group.
EPA spokesperson Brann wrote that the agency “supports efforts by agencies across the federal government — including the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior, as well as interagency forums such as the Wildland Fire Leadership Council — to implement and further develop strategies to reduce wildfire risk, and to help communities prepare for, respond to, and recover from wildfires.
Massive fires in Northern California in August 2018 blew smoke into many states across the country, captured here over 36-hour period.“States who have tried to keep these things separate — to keep climate change and exposure to local air pollution as two distinct things — I don’t think they’re going to be able to maintain that indefinitely,” he said.
Smoke, he said, “made a permanent and lasting impact” on his psyche and life path. Now 26 years old and a grassroots climate activist, he points out that “in crisis, people look to authority for answers."“We were thinking like the impacts of climate change were distant,” Mir said. “But now, it’s quite literally the air that I breathe.
“It wasn't the takeaway we wanted to see,” Bass told LAist. “But it was important to clarify what that barrier was and how we can go about it.” In a statement to LAist, McDonough’s office said they’ll continue to focus on ensuring unhoused veterans can get housing.During Tuesday’s meeting, Bass said, McDonough did offer one possible solution to get some unhoused veterans into housing.
“The HUD secretary notified us that we were in danger of actually losing money that had been awarded by HUD to the tune of a couple hundred million dollars,” Bass said.Bass’ concern is that Congress could claw back any funding cities have that hasn’t been designated for specific uses.City officials invited McDonough to come tour more VA facilities in L.A., including a medical center in the San Fernando Valley that he hasn’t yet visited, Bass said.
Major climate-focused laws passed in 2021 and 2022, like the Inflation Reduction Act, have put the country on a solid theoretical pathway toward hitting that goal, says aThe two dozen engineers, scientists, medical specialists, and policy experts who authored the report developed a series of recommendations for how to take that theoretical pathway into concrete actions.
"The transition is not only technical but social, and political, and institutional," says Romero-Lankao.
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