In a rush to keep developing more natural gas and oil, oil and gas companies are relying more heavily on a technique of stimulation and extraction known as hydraulic fracturing or fracking. Using this process, companies that develop gas and oil wells pump very high-pressure water, chemicals and solids into the ground to fracture rock and extract fuel that would otherwise be unavailable.
Hillary Gordon whe heads the Angeles Chapter Zero Waste Committee protested at the rally.
photo by Tom Politeo
“Shame on them!” cried labor, environmental and community activists assembled in front of American Reclamation’s waste sorting center in the Atwater area of Los Angeles.
Creating two youth baseball fields at Crystal Springs in Griffith Park runs contary
to the benefactor's vision for the park as a place of rest for "the plain people".
photo by Tom Polito
A federal appeals court decision in an Arizona case sharply restricts and may end the Adventure Pass program that imposes recreation fees for visitors to Angeles National Forest and other federal lands. The U.S. Forest Service, though, made no immediate move to change its fee system.
“C
onnecting people to our lands is personally important to me,” said President Obama at the White House Conference on Conservation held in early March. The conference, convened by the President and his cabinet, was titled Growing America’s Outdoor Heritage and Economy.
College Student Rebecca Niemlec spent her summer designing curicula and
taking students outdoors with the Chapter's Inner-City Outings Committee
photo by Joe Young
In the March/April issue (“Clean energy: Why natural gas doesn’t make the cut”), Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune tends to paint a rather gloomy portrait of the natural gas industry.
I have to disagree based on several known facts. I have worked in the natural gas industry for more than 25 years and I am proud to have served millions of customers with a clean alternative to coal and oil for the production of electricity and other energy needs.
It’s been about 12 years since a couple of us started working to bring clean, non-polluting trucks to the Port of Los Angeles. On a Wednesday night in April in a small trailer in a truck yard in Wilmington, a coalition that includes the Angeles Chapter’s Harbor Vision Task Force scored a victory when nearly 50 employee truck drivers voted to join the Teamsters.
One-third of all the stuff we throw away in L.A. and Orange counties could help improve the health of our communities, prevent climate change, nourish local soils and create good green jobs.
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