The requirement follows the recent disturbance of asbestos-wrapped steam pipes inside a building that is being demolished on the Roosevelt campus
The South Coast Air Quality Management District’s Refinery Committee today directed agency staff to develop a regulation by May 2019 to better mitigate the risk from – or possibly phase out — the use of a highly toxic chemical used at two Southland refineries.
This conference brings together a diverse group of representatives from academic and research institutions, non-profit organizations, and the green-tech industry.
A wildfire, named the Cranston Fire, is burning to the east of Hemet in Riverside County within the San Bernardino National Forest. The burn area was last reported at 11,500 acres with three percent containment. A second fire, called the Ribbon Fire, is burning to the west of Pinyon in Riverside County. Southerly winds this morning will transition to an onshore flow this afternoon with predicted gusts up to 25 mph. Winds will then transition to a northwesterly wind during the evening and overnight hours. During the overnight and early morning hours, downslope winds might bring smoke into the valleys west of the fire.
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SCAQMD Hosts Series of Community Meetings on New Measures Aimed at Reducing Pollution Exposure in Environmental Justice Communities
The South Coast Air Quality Management District hosted its fourth “Building Upon the Dream: Day of Service Forum” in the Tuskegee Room of The Proud Bird Event Center near Los Angeles International Airport. Nearly 300 were in attendance.
During Saturday’s meeting, SCAQMD staff briefed the committee and the public on development of the agency’s proposed Rule 1410 and received public input on it.
SCAQMD to Host Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service Forum
Last week, more than 200 community activists and champions of the Environmental Justice fight gathered together in downtown Los Angeles at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angeles to hold their annual conference hosted by the South Coast Air Quality Managements District.{SCAQMD} SCAQMD is the air pollution control agency for all of Orange County and the urban portions of Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, among the smoggiest regions of the U.S. The agency is committed to protecting the health of residents, while remaining sensitive to businesses. SCAQMD’s Environmental Justice program began in 1997 with the Ethnic Advisory
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The South Coast Air Quality Management District today adopted a landmark requirement for the region’s eight major oil refining facilities to provide the public with real-time, fenceline air monitoring data by 2020. The refineries also will have to pay SCAQMD to establish and operate air monitoring systems in communities near the facilities, also by 2020. “Fenceline air monitoring data can provide information to residents and agencies about routine emissions as well as accidental releases,” said Wayne Nastri, SCAQMD’s executive officer. “It also can help quickly identify sources of leaks which will lead to further emission reductions at refineries.”
The South Coast Air Quality Management District hosted the third annual environmental conference, titled “A Conversation on Environmental Justice”, on Saturday, Dec. 2
Homes that rely on wood as a sole source of heat, low-income households and those without natural gas service are also exempt from the requirement. Gas and other non-wood burning fireplaces are not restricted
The combined efforts will help provide a clearer picture of localized air quality for air quality policymakers and stakeholders.