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Richard Parks

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South Central LA neighbor seeking beauty and social justice for children and their families with Redeemer Community Partnership.

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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
LAist’s Erin Stone eratone7.bsky.social takes us inside one neighborhood’s fight to shut down a drill site, and explores what a broader effort to phase out drilling could mean for a region whose economy and infrastructure were built on an oil field. omny.fm/shows/imperf...
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Can a city built by the oil industry stop drilling for good? - Imperfect Paradise
The city of Los Angeles is home to over two thousand active oil wells, many concentrated in communities of color where residents have long reported serious health issues. On this episode of Imperfect ...
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Replacing gas stove can help asthmatics as much as some drugs, US experts find | Asthma | The Guardian share.google/A31opNYMmODB...
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Replacing gas stove can help asthmatics as much as some drugs, US experts find
Team in Ohio finds swapping to electric has ‘very large’ impact, despite study being scaled back by Trump cuts
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Oil and neighborhoods don't mix. Tomorrow the City opens a Nuisance Abatement Revocation hearing on LA Archdiocese-owned Murphy oil drill site. Excellent reporting by LAist reporter erstone7.bsky.social.
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
“This is an important piece of research that adds to a growing body of evidence that sperm quality is adversely affected by airborne pollutants.” www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Air pollution linked to DNA changes in sperm, research shows
Study of more than 2,000 men identifies epigenetic changes linked to exposure to common outdoor pollutants
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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
My latest at @quittingcarbon.bsky.social: California is installing zero-emission electric appliances and energy-saving upgrades at no cost to low-income households under @calenergy.bsky.social's Equitable Building Decarbonization Program: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/california-i... 🔌💡
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California is investing a half-billion dollars to decarbonize homes for low-income households
California is installing zero-emission electric appliances and energy-saving upgrades at no cost to low-income households across the state under the Equitable Building Decarbonization Program.
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Redeemer Community Partnership @redeemercp.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"Too many of our neighborhoods have carried the burden of industrial pollution for decades," said @rdparks.bsky.social, president of Redeemer Community Partnership. "Culver City's action shows that we don't have to choose between economic opportunity and community health." bit.ly/4ukpv16
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Culver City Passes Resolution In Support Of Clean Manufacturing
In a move the city claims to protect public health, boost Southern California's economy, and reduce climate pollution, the Culver City Council unanimously passed a resolution yesterday in support of a...
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
So many friends, neigbhors, & allies worked for years to close the Jefferson Drill Site & aninmate a vision that attracted funding to buy the land for the blessing of our community. Great storytelling by PBS SoCal @standla.bsky.social @redeemercp.bsky.social @pbs.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWBc...
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The Fight to End Oil Drilling in Los Angeles | Earth Focus | S7 E3
YouTube video by PBS SoCal
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Visionary universities that serve without harm are moving away from gas combustion to clean, zero-emission heat. Kuddos to CSDH and UCI Hospital for leading the way. All eyes are on USC, the region's largest industrial gas boiler polluter. #WeCantBreathe
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
A spokesperson for the mayor said it was "startling" that SUVs were "77% more likely to kill a child if involved in a collision". London mayor turns society right side up by prioritizing child safety. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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London's SUV drivers could face new charges if plans go ahead
The plan is part the mayor's strategy to stop death and serious injury on London's roads by 2041.
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Adoption of electric vehicles tied to real-world reductions in air pollution, study finds keck.usc.edu/news/adoptio...
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Adoption of electric vehicles tied to real-world reductions in air pollution, study finds
Related News Sweeping review reveals latest evidence on the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of ADHD March 25, 2024 Fluoride exposure during pregnancy linked to increased risk of childhood neurobe...
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
ATP projects fail for lack of Councilmember support either by passive or active opposition. Returning millions in grant funds is a failure of leadership and an act of violence against the most vulnerable.
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
"As a well gets older and production drops, it can become a “marginal well,” producing less than 630 gallons a day while contributing a disproportionate amount to emissions and the subsequent environmental and health risks."
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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
☢️THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR LIFE—E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution. the EPA plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives. Gift🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
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E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Hospitals and universities are major NOx polluters due to their use of industrial gas boilers. UCI's all electric hospital prioritizes public health with zero-emission alternatives. www.latimes.com/environment/...
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The country's largest all-electric hospital is about to open in Orange County
More buildings are going all-electric, especially in states trying to address climate change. UCI Health–Irvine, the largest all-electric hospital in the country, is opening Wednesday.
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
"It’s a future where we no longer accept thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of broken spines as the price of mobility." It’s time to stop treating Waymo autonomous vehicles like a tech moonshot and start treating it like a public health intervention. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
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Opinion | Don’t Fear Self-Driving Cars. They Save Lives.
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
“The most direct implication is that clean air policies are brain health policies.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia, research suggests
Airborne particles cause toxic clumps of proteins in brain that are hallmarks of Lewy body dementia, study indicates
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
This American Lung Association report illustrates the potential for dramatic air quality and public health improvements in America’s industrial manufacturing sector: * 3,200 premature deaths avoided * 1,870,000 asthma attacks avoided * $47.5 billion in health benefits www.lung.org/clean-air/cl...
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Clean Heat, Clean Air report
This American Lung Association report highlights the benefits of zero-emission technologies in the industrial heating sector, including over $1 trillion in public health benefits by 2050.
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Our home is now gas free! We chipped away at it over several years. Each electric appliance has been an improvement over the gas one it replaced. Plus: lower utility bills, improved in-door air quality, no more gas leaks, and no more pollution vented into our community.
A SoCalGas representative caps the gas line and removes the gas meter from our home.
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
"Households that do not electrify may bear a 46% increase in gas bills on average over the next 15 years (relative to current costs)." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Effects of uncoordinated electrification on energy burdens for natural gas customers - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Effects of uncoordinated electrification on energy burdens for natural gas customers
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world. California is so far using 40% less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023. UK 2024 carbon emissions fell below what they were in 1879. www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
There is still time to benefit. Everything you need to know about which tax credits Congress just voted to eliminate, when they expire and who qualifies. wapo.st/4ldY3gK
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How to use tax credits for EVs and home projects before they expire
Everything you need to know about which tax credits Congress just voted to eliminate, when they expire and who qualifies.
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 22/06/2025
What if a neighborhood could switch from gas to electric in one fell swoop? In California, work is underway to do just that.
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In California, a Push to Decommission Gas Lines in Low-Income Neighborhoods Moves Forward - Inside Climate News
Neighborhood-scale decarbonization is an efficient way to electrify neighborhoods that might otherwise be left behind.
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
@laist.com reporter Erin Stone focuses on advocates' urgent efforts to protect communities from oil sites' toxic health impacts even as they work with city leaders to end neighborhood oil drilling. @redeemercp.bsky.social @standla.bsky.social laist.com/news/climate...
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LA repeals oil phaseout law as residents near wells seek health protections
Communities living near oil drilling want the city to move quickly to reinstate its oil phaseout rule, as well as curtail practices like acid maintenance.
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
We did it! With just 72-hour notice, neighbors came together to build a floating sign out of deer fencing and U-Haul tarps, and then turned out for a pop-up protest to protect our community from toxic acid work.
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Looking to electrify your home? laist.com/news/climate...
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Need help switching appliances from gas to electric? A 'coach' can help
Government incentives for climate-friendly upgrades are confusing to navigate, and it can be hard to find businesses that sell them. So a new industry is emerging to help: the decarbonization coach.
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
A great start to the day! 25+ neighbors showed up to a pop-up rally outside the Murphy Drill Site to protest the oil company's scheduled acid work less than 1000' from 3 schools serving 1,300 students. The work was canceled. #EndNeighborhoodDrilling
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Tomorrow, the LA Archdiocese will host a massive acid maintenance job at its Murphy oil drill site in South Central LA. 1,300 students attend class less than 1,000' away. Love of neighbor & care for our common home should trump greed. @gustavoarellano.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Commentary: Archbishop Gomez, you still have time. Follow Pope Francis' example
As L.A. became more progressive, Gomez retreated into his conservatism. During his three years as the first Latino head of the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops, Gomez pursued culture war nonsense i...
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Good news! After overcoming design flaws and costly ($1M) copper wire theft, construction on the Jefferson Beautiful Safe Routes to School project is back on track. Looking forward to the repaired sidewalks, ramps, bike lanes, pedestrian lighting, signalized crossings, and street trees coming soon!
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Full circle moment in South Central LA youth who marched with @redeemercp.bsky.social as children to close the Jefferson Drill Site returned to see the progress! They learned about the ongoing remediation & shared their powerful vision for a redeveloped space that will finally heal this community.
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
How to check your LA neighborhood's exposure to diesel truck fumes. "Diesel exhaust accounts for more than 2/3 of cancer risk from air pollution in the LA basin". Helpful research by Prof. Jill Johnston of the USC Center for Children's Environmental Health. laist.com/news/health/...
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How to check your neighborhood's exposure to diesel truck fumes
A new interactive map from USC researchers breaks down traffic to and from ports by ZIP code and street.
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Fed-up with oil fumes in their classrooms & oil pollution in their neighborhood, South Central LA youth met with LA mayor Bass. Youth are defending our community & challenging the norms of corporate wealth before public health. May their love of neighbor & neighborhood inspire us to greater action.
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
Underscoring the urgent need to eliminate gas in homes: www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/c...
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How Bad Are Gas Stoves for My Health?
They emit harmful pollutants, which makes good ventilation crucial.
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
Good news for breathers! Today, @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, signed AB 3233 granting local jurisdictions authority to phase-out oil drilling. AB 3233 gives new life to LA's oil phase-out ordinance after the oil industry won a lawsuit overturning it. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/n...
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
Our community organized to close the Jefferson oil drill site and worked with Asm. Jones-Sawyer to secure a $10M grant to buy it. CalPoly Pomona landscape architecture students are helping our community imagine the possibilities for a neighborhood park, affordable housing, and a community center.
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Milestone Reached In Inglewood Oil Phaseout Oil extraction to end by 2029 laist.com/news/climate-environment/… Via @LAist @Erstone7. @STAND_LA
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Milestone Reached In Inglewood Oil Phaseout
Drilling in Culver City’s portion is set to end in 2029.
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Oil operator E&B thanks @Planning4LA and @CityAttorneyLA for all the money they saved the company by taking away health protections from South LA residents living next to the Murphy Drill Site. #EarlyChristmas! @MayorOfLA @STAND_LA @RedeemerCP
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
@Planning4LA & @CityAttorneyLA propose allowing oil company, E&B, to import & burn tens-of-millions of cubic feet of methane next to our homes & schools. Meanwhile, they have prohibited on-site power generation at West LA drill sites for decades. @STAND_LA @RedeemerCP @MayorOfLA
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
Oil drilling's myriad harms to public health are so clear, but @planning4la and @CityAttorneyLA continue to deny South LA residents equal protection. @STAND_LA, @RedeemerCP www.citywatchla.com/voices/27684-dr…
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Drilling Deception: E&B’s False Claims in South LA
CityWatch is published 24/7 with special e-news blasts on...
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 05/09/2023
LA breaks ground on the community led, $12.2 million Jefferson Beautiful safe routes to school project. Repaired sidewalks, street trees, pedestrian lighting, bike lanes, signalized crossings, and more coming to Jefferson Blvd. from Vermont Ave. west to Western Ave.
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 18/05/2023
Big Oil plans to dine and dash, leaving taxpayers a bill that will "vastly exceed all the industry's future profits in the state." Now is the time to stop this theft w/higher bonding requirements. Excellent reporting by @MarkOlalde @propublica. @STAND_LA ...
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 08/03/2023
South LA residents get a victory in their fight against Big Oil. @STAND_LA @RedeemerCP Excellent reporting by @jeremotographs @LAist laist.com/news/health/in-a-largely-…
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In a Largely Black and Latino Community, Neighbors Worry ...
Activists get a victory in their fight to protect South L...
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 01/03/2023
@RedeemerCP organizing reaches a milestone as LA orders the Murphy Drill Site to be enclosed & electrified. These health protections were given to wealthier, West LA neighborhoods 20+ years ago. THANK YOU @Planning4LA @CityAttorneyLA @MayorOfLA! #EndNeighborhoodDrilling
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 11/01/2023
LOL! Oil company lawsuit says "the city failed to do a required environmental study of the effects of stopping oil extraction." 🤔 @STAND_LA @redeemerCP #EndNeighborhoodDrilling www.latimes.com/california/story/20…
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Oil companies sue L.A. over ban on drilling
Warren Resources on Tuesday sued the city of L.A. over it...
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 13/12/2022
Oil operator E&B "resisted" CalGEM's orders to cap a well. Last week it exploded seriously injuring a worker. LA puts South LA residents at-risk from E&B by withholding protections it gave wealthier, whiter, West LA neighborhoods 20+ years ago. @STAND_LA ...
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 08/12/2022
CTC approves $26.3 million for the Normandie Beautiful active transportation project in South LA! The project creates safe routes to school for 9,000 students attending 14 schools and removes Normandie Ave. from the High Injury Network. @redeemercp #ATP
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 03/12/2022
It was a VERY GOOD day for BREATHERS in LA. (1) LA votes to end oil drilling citywide (2) LA funds studies to expedite oil phase-out (3) Air District approves a $325,000/ton NOx cost effectiveness threshold.
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 01/11/2022
Study finds toxic trespass into the bodies of residents living <1km from oil site. Elevated levels of toxic metals associated w/oil extraction are linked to Parkinson’s, lung cancer, CVD, & type 2 diabetes. #EndNeighborhoodDrilling @STAND_LA @RedeemerCP ...
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 06/10/2022
South LA neighborhoods plagued by oil drilling lack the protections given to wealthier, whiter, West LA communities decades ago. TAKE ACTION: Urge LA to protect ALL of our children....
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 24/08/2022
As 1,300 students started class less than 1,000' away, two 5,000-gallon tanker trucks rolled on to the LA Catholic Archdiocese's oil site to perform unpermitted acid maintenance. 3rd time this year. Sacrificial zoning, malign neglect, & env. racism by @Planning4LA.
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Richard Parks @rdparks.bsky.social · 11/07/2022
.@vbertoni, @CityAttorneyLA refuse to stop Big Oil's unpermitted acid maintenance, so it keeps happening. South LA residents woke up to toxic acid work next door to our homes, health centers, schools and daycares with no notice. @MayorOfLA is this okay with you?
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