Tag: California
Chevron owns this city’s news site. Many stories aren’t told
RICHMOND, Calif. — Open flames shot upward from four smokestacks at the Chevron refinery on the western edge of Richmond, Calif. Soon, black smoke blanketed the sky. News spread quickly that day last November, but by word of mouth, says Denny Khamphanthong, a 29-year-old Richmond resident. “We don’t know the full story, but we know […]
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$100 Million Gone in 27 Minutes
After possibly the most expensive jewelry heist in U.S. history, Brink’s went after the victims. Jean Malki was carefully wrapping up a necklace containing more than 25 carats of fancy yellow diamonds, a rare Australian-mined Lightning Ridge black opal, and a deep-magenta Burmese ruby after a long day of sales at the International Gem & […]
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Why is eco-conscious California spending millions to support natural gas?
Read the story at The Guardian In the course of an hour, more than a hundred big rig trucks chug through the aptly named city of Commerce. The heavily Latino community in Los Angeles intersects Interstate 710 – the main highway that moves cargo shipments from the nearby ports to their final destinations. Along with the merchandise […]
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Hospitals Confront Climate Change as Patients Sick From Floods and Fires Crowd ERs
When triple-digit temperatures hit the Pacific Northwest this summer, the emergency room at Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center was ill prepared. Doctors raced to treat heat-aggravated illness in homeless people, elderly patients with chronic ailments, and overdosing narcotics users. “The magnitude of the exposure, this was so far off the charts in terms of our historical […]
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As Temperatures Rise, So Do the Health Risks for California’s Farmworkers
COACHELLA, Calif. — Leoncio Antonio Trejo Galdamez, 58, died in his son’s arms on June 29 after spending the day laying irrigation pipes in California’s Coachella Valley. News of his death reverberated through the largely Latino community near the Mexican and Arizona borders — another casualty in a dangerous business. “Farmworkers are at the front […]
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They fought for clean air. They were part of a gas industry campaign
Diesel truck pollution from the busiest port complex in the United States has fouled the air in nearby neighborhoods in Southern California for decades. So when port officials asked for feedback on cleaning up that pollution, hundreds of people weighed in. Los Angeles and Long Beach officials hoped residents would help them decide whether to […]
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They fought for clean air. They didn’t know they were part of a gas industry campaign
Read the story at The Guardian Diesel truck pollution from the busiest port complex in the United States has fouled the air in nearby neighbourhoods in southern California for decades. So when port officials asked for feedback on cleaning up that pollution, hundreds of people weighed in. Los Angeles and Long Beach officials hoped residents would help […]
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‘Fear on top of fear’: Why anti-gun Americans joined the wave of new gun owners
Pandemic, police violence, calls to ‘defund the police’ fuel surge of first-time buyers All his life, Jabril Battle was anti-gun. Then came the pandemic, the lockdown, the shortages and a feeling that at any moment, things could blow. Battle bought a Beretta. Drawn to last summer’s protests against police violence, Savannah Grace found herself face-to-face […]
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Miracle in the desert
The hunt for lithium and environmental justice on the shores of a dying lake tanding on the banks of the lakeshore, Darlene Berber’s view of her former neighbourhood was both familiar and strangely altered. “That’s where the marina used to be,” she said, as she guided us round what remains of Vista Del Mar. “There […]
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