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3 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Tony Briscoe |Noah Haggerty
A group of environmental researchers is calling on the Newsom administration to step in and pay for soil testing at thousands of homes destroyed in the Eaton and Palisades wildfires. Nearly a dozen university professors wrote a letter Wednesday to Gov.
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3 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Noah Haggerty
Scientists have released some of the first independent test results confirming that drinking water in fire-affected areas around Altadena and the Pacific Palisades is largely free of harmful contaminants, as an Altadena utility lifted the last “do not drink” notice left in the burn zones. Researchers with the LA Fire HEALTH Study released results on Friday from 53 homes spread across the burn areas and the more than three miles surrounding them.
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4 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Ian James |Noah Haggerty
The last of nine fire-affected L.A.-area water utilities has been cleared to resume delivering safe drinking water, and has lifted its “do not drink” notice in Altadena, state water officials say. After the January firestorms, such “do not drink” and “do not boil” advisories affected an estimated 23,000 water customers in Pacific Palisades and Altadena.
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1 month ago |
latimes.com | Noah Haggerty
In the last year, the Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians – Kizh Nation has worked to protect its cultural sites from more than 850 land development projects around the Los Angeles Basin, thanks to a that allows tribes to give input during projects’ environmental review processes. Now, its chief fears that a newly proposed bill could significantly limit how the tribe — and dozens of others still without federal recognition — could participate.
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1 month ago |
latimes.com | Tony Briscoe |Noah Haggerty |Hayley Smith
Over three days in late March, four Los Angeles Times environment reporters and an editor fanned out across the Eaton and Palisades burn scars to collect 40 soil samples from residential properties: 10 in each burn area from properties where debris removal was completed by the Army Corps of Engineers and 10 in each burn area from the yards of standing homes.
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