"Killing Us Slowly": Environmental Justice and Grass-Roots Efforts to Achieve It

  • Posted on 2 December 2020
  • By Carol Henning
Kilynn Johnson got very sick one night and was rushed to hospital almost five years ago. Surgery to remove a tumor from her gallbladder revealed cancer that had spread from her gallbladder to some lymph nodes and to her liver. She needed six weeks of both radiation and chemotherapy. Gallbladder cancer is diagnosed in only about 3,700 Americans every year, and it mostly strikes people in their '70s and older. Johnson was only 46.
 

Tell the AQMD Board: Ban Use Of MHF in Local Refineries!

  • Posted on 17 January 2019
  • By lfleming

The South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) has the opportunity to adopt Rule 1410 and completely phase out dangerous MHF from our local refineries. They need to hear from the public, to support this resolution for a complete ban, but it is facing strong opposition from the Torrance Refinery and Valero (Wilmington) Refinery.