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Opinion: My teen daughter turned a beach visit into a lesson on protecting the planet
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: My teen daughter turned a beach visit into a lesson on protecting the planet

LA Times  

“Is this a bowl of. I get that, yet as I dump the fuzzy tofu into the compost bucket, I mutter, “She’s never going to mature.” The next month, we’re visiting Point Reyes National Seashore in Northern California. Over her lifetime, we’ve done beach cleanups with the Oregon nonprofit SOLVE and helped create giant whimsical sculptures out of beach trash …

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Human Rights Watch slams L.A. and state for criminalizing homelessness
4 months, 1 week ago

Human Rights Watch slams L.A. and state for criminalizing homelessness

LA Times  

Members of the Council District 11 Coalition for Human Rights and others protest in Venice in July. Gavin Newsom for criminalizing homelessness and failing to observe “an internationally protected human right” to “adequate housing.” The organization, which reports on human rights abuses in some of the most violent places on earth, said the U.S. as a whole, and particularly the …

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Homeless encampment cleanups do little to change numbers of people on the street, study finds
5 months ago

Homeless encampment cleanups do little to change numbers of people on the street, study finds

LA Times  

Inside Safe workers clean up a homeless camp at 86th Street and Broadway to get people out of the encampment and into hotel and motel rooms June 26, 2024, in Los Angeles. “They just tend to move them around and the numbers tend to return in our relatively small area to previous trends pretty quickly.” Dwight Thomas, 62, right, gathers …

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‘Erratic and assaultive’ man armed with machete shot by Riverside County sheriff’s deputy
5 months ago

‘Erratic and assaultive’ man armed with machete shot by Riverside County sheriff’s deputy

LA Times  

Jurupa Valley Sheriff’s Station at 7477 Mission Blvd. An officer-involved shooting took place Friday involving a Riverside County sheriff’s deputy. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a deputy-involved shooting that killed a man who was allegedly armed and behaving erratically in the Santa Ana River. On Friday at 7:28 a.m., Riverside County Parks rangers called the sheriff’s department for …

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Demand for rare elements used in clean energy could help clean up abandoned coal mines in Appalachia
5 months, 1 week ago

Demand for rare elements used in clean energy could help clean up abandoned coal mines in Appalachia

Associated Press  

MOUNT STORM, W.Va. — Down a long gravel road, tucked into the hills in West Virginia, is a low-slung building where researchers are extracting essential elements from an old coal mine that they hope will strengthen the nation’s energy future. Rather, researchers are finding that groundwater pouring out of this and other abandoned coal mines contains the rare earth elements …

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Column: Sacramento’s tax rebate giveaway two years ago is coming home to roost
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Column: Sacramento’s tax rebate giveaway two years ago is coming home to roost

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom at a news conference in Oakland in 2021 to announced a tax rebate for Californians. So it seemed like a grand idea to throw nearly $10 billion out a Capitol window at people who really didn’t care whether they got any of it or not. Evidence of the flawed money distribution system was reported recently by The Times’ …

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World No-Tobacco Day (May 31): How tobacco is poisoning our planet
6 months, 3 weeks ago

World No-Tobacco Day (May 31): How tobacco is poisoning our planet

Hindustan Times  

Globally, the 6 trillion cigarettes manufactured each year take up some 5.3 million hectares of land and requires more than 22 billion tonnes of water. Beyond the impact on human health, tobacco production and consumption is a huge environmental burden on the planet - deforestation, depletion of water resources, contamination of soil, cigarette butt littering, quality of air and e-cigarette …

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Editorial: L.A. officials lied to justify seizing homeless people’s belongings. That’s despicable
8 months ago

Editorial: L.A. officials lied to justify seizing homeless people’s belongings. That’s despicable

LA Times  

Ry Thounry packs up her tent on the Main Street overpass above the 101 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles while sanitation crews move in to clean the homeless encampment. Plaintiff Pete Diocson, Jr., a homeless man in Harbor City, had his dog’s wire kennel seized and discarded because sanitation workers and Los Angeles Police Department officers told him it was …

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A federal judge has found that L.A. city officials doctored records in a case over homeless camp cleanups
8 months, 1 week ago

A federal judge has found that L.A. city officials doctored records in a case over homeless camp cleanups

LA Times  

Members of a cleanup crew dismantle tents at a homeless encampment along San Vicente Boulevard outside the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs campus in Los Angeles in 2021. A federal judge has found that Los Angeles city officials altered evidence to support the city’s defense against allegations that it illegally seized and destroyed homeless people’s property. In some records, the …

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The Dark Side of Ocean Cleanup Technology
11 months ago

The Dark Side of Ocean Cleanup Technology

Slate  

Rebecca Helm despises the phrase “Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” This moniker is used to describe the vast stretch of ocean from the west coast of North America to Japan that is crammed with an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of trash, most of which are plastic. However, several years later, Helm still believes that we don’t understand enough about the environmental …

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New tool to reduce homeless camps: L.A. County leases apartment building for former RV dwellers
1 year ago

New tool to reduce homeless camps: L.A. County leases apartment building for former RV dwellers

LA Times  

William Escribano, 41, stands on the balcony of his new apartment on Tuesday. Since its kick-off in August, the county program, called Pathway Home, has conducted five camp cleanups, which it calls “resolutions,” moving 230 people indoors and taking 122 RVs off the street. “This is just the start,” said Cheri Todoroff, director of the county’s Homeless Initiative. Almorejo’s new …

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Mayor Bass seeks $250-million expansion of homelessness program in first State of the City speech
1 year, 8 months ago

Mayor Bass seeks $250-million expansion of homelessness program in first State of the City speech

LA Times  

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass delivers her State of the City address at Los Angeles City Hall on Monday. In her first State of the City speech, Mayor Karen Bass announced a dramatic expansion of her signature program to move homeless people indoors, while also pledging to create “a new L.A.” Bass said she intends to propose $250 million for …

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Oil leak from sunken Philippine tanker prompts swimming bans
1 year, 9 months ago

Oil leak from sunken Philippine tanker prompts swimming bans

Associated Press  

Oil leaking from a Philippine tanker that sank southwest of the capital has prompted at least seven coastal towns to ban fishing and swimming as authorities scramble to contain the spill, officials said Thursday. The MT Princess Empress, which was carrying 20 crewmembers and a cargo of about 800,000 liters of industrial fuel oil, sank Tuesday at Balingawan point off …

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LAPD should stop handling many non-emergency calls, police union says
1 year, 9 months ago

LAPD should stop handling many non-emergency calls, police union says

LA Times  

The Los Angeles Police Department’s largest employee union is looking to have officers stop responding to more than two dozen types of calls, transferring those duties to other city agencies while focusing on more serious crimes. As part of its upcoming contract talks, the Los Angeles Police Protective League intends to tell city negotiators that it is willing to let …

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Judge questions San Francisco tactics in homeless sweeps
2 years ago

Judge questions San Francisco tactics in homeless sweeps

Associated Press  

SAN FRANCISCO — A judge in federal court Thursday questioned San Francisco’s tactics in homeless encampment cleanups, suggesting the city is not following its own policies of offering shelter beds to people being asked to leave a public area. Attorneys for San Francisco said its policies balance the rights of homeless people with a need to maintain public spaces clean …

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Niger Delta decries slow cleanups, decades after oil spills
2 years ago

Niger Delta decries slow cleanups, decades after oil spills

Al Jazeera  

Niger Delta locals say remediation work is slow and appeal to the government to hasten the restoration of the polluted environment. Ogoni problem The most internationally known incident is the 2011 Bonga oil spill from a Shell oilfield, in which 40,000 barrels of oil spilled into the Atlantic Ocean and affected 168,000 people in 350 communities in Nigeria’s states of …

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Germany to force plastic makers to help pay for cleanups
2 years, 1 month ago

Germany to force plastic makers to help pay for cleanups

The Independent  

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Embracing native plants doesn’t have to be all or nothing
2 years, 6 months ago

Embracing native plants doesn’t have to be all or nothing

Associated Press  

As home gardeners become more educated about the role native plants play in the ecosystem — and their importance to pollinators, wildlife and humans — many are turning to “rewilding.” The term refers to a landscaping approach that depends on the use of native plants to sustain insects, bees, birds and butterflies. In embracing the movement, these gardeners are eliminating …

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In New Jersey, Ford faces lawsuit over polluting tribal land
2 years, 6 months ago

In New Jersey, Ford faces lawsuit over polluting tribal land

Salon  

New Jersey is suing Ford Motor Company, one of the country's largest automobile manufacturers, for allegedly dumping waste on the homelands of the Ramapough Lenape Nation, a Native American tribe recognized by the state. Instead, it seeks damages for the destruction of natural resources, and accuses the company of "deliberate acts or omissions taken with a wanton and willful disregard …

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A Visakhapatnam startup that recycles ghost gears from oceans with funky bags and bracelets
2 years, 10 months ago

A Visakhapatnam startup that recycles ghost gears from oceans with funky bags and bracelets

The Hindu  

Handbags and clutches made from mangled crusty knots of fishing nets picked up from the bottom of the ocean, bracelets from discarded mess of fishing gear and odecorative string lights made from ocean trash. Ghost gear Discarded, lost or abandoned fishing gear, commonly referred to as ghost gear, contributes significantly to marine plastic pollution and are a mortal threat to …

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Biden Reaches $550 Billion Climate Compromise Days Before Major UN Summit
3 years, 1 month ago

Biden Reaches $550 Billion Climate Compromise Days Before Major UN Summit

Huff Post  

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on his Build Back Better agenda from the East Room of the White House after meeting with members of the House Democratic Caucus at the U.S. Capitol. Kent Nishimura via Getty Images Just a week after fossil fuel stalwarts in his own party killed his signature carbon-cutting proposal, President Joe Biden announced Thursday a compromise …

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Block by block, tent by tent, city crews remove homeless campers from Venice Beach
3 years, 5 months ago

Block by block, tent by tent, city crews remove homeless campers from Venice Beach

LA Times  

Ursula was asleep on a beanbag under an umbrella on a patch of sand, just feet from the public bathrooms on Venice Beach when three LAPD officers shined flashlights on her and told her to move. “The park is closed.” Sanitation workers clear a homeless encampment along Ocean Front Walk in Venice at predawn Thursday. For more than three hours, …

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Attorneys decry ‘cleanups’ of homeless encampments during pandemic
4 years ago

Attorneys decry ‘cleanups’ of homeless encampments during pandemic

LA Times  

As the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged communities, public health experts worried about the deadly consequences for homeless people sleeping on the streets. On Monday, a coalition of lawyers and advocates for homeless people complained that the city of Los Angeles was ignoring that advice by cleaning camps, putting people in encampments throughout the city at heightened risk. Read the letter sent …

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L.A. council votes to resume major cleanups near shelters
4 years, 4 months ago

L.A. council votes to resume major cleanups near shelters

LA Times  

Homeless people pack up their belongings along 1st Street between Broadway and Spring Street in Los Angeles during a cleanup. The Los Angeles City Council voted to resume major cleanups around its “bridge housing” shelters, a step sharply opposed by local advocates who argue it will put homeless people at grave risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the council vote …

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