SCAQMD Hosts Series of Community Meetings on New Measures Aimed at Reducing Pollution Exposure in Environmental Justice Communities
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
The South Coast Air Quality Management District will host its “Building Upon the Dream: Day of Service Forum” in the Tuskegee Room of The Proud Bird Event Center near Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday, Jan. 13.
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.”
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.
This was the first time in my 23 years of living in Los Angeles that I was actually able to see the mountains with clarity.
The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) has issued a residential no-burn alert effective today, December 13, through Wednesday, December 14, for all those living in the South Coast Air Basin, which includes Orange County and non-desert portions of Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. SCAQMD reminds residents in these areas that burning wood in their fireplaces – both indoors and outdoors — is prohibited today through midnight on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016.
William A. Burke, Ed.D., is sworn in on Feb. 5 for a new term as Chairman of the South Coast Air Quality Management District by Michael Antonovich, fellow SCAQMD Board member and Los Angeles County Supervisor. As the first African-American to chair the SCAQMD Board, Dr. Burke has served the public for more than 22 years, including 18 as chairman — the longest leadership tenure on SCAQMD’s Board. Initially appointed to the Board in 1993, Dr. Burke also is the former Speaker of the California State Assembly Willie Brown’s last serving appointee. During his time as SCAQMD Board Chair Dr.
Over 425 guests filled the California Science Center’s Loker Conference Center on Saturday, January 16, 2016 for the South Coast Air Quality Management District’s (SCAQMD) Third Annual Martin Luther King Day of Service Forum. Each year this event, which embraces Dr. King’s vision of the “Beloved Community,” seeks to inform attendees about Southern California’s air pollution challenges and encourages them to work with the SCAQMD to achieve clean air for all. The audience enjoyed personal reflections on the Civil Rights Movement and Dr. King shared by the program keynote speaker former Mayor of San Francisco, Willie L. Brown, Jr. and
Our agency – the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) – recently paired up with the Los Angeles Sentinel for a unique partnership to broaden outreach to the communities that both we and the publication serve. This article and future features will share who the SCAQMD is and what we are doing, in collaboration with many others, to improve Southern California’s air quality.