SoCal > Departures > Land of Sunshine > Green Justice > The Grass Roots Fight for Clean Water and Green Justice Share Green Justice The Grass Roots Fight for Clean Water and Green Justice by Robert Garcia on March 22, 2012 2:04 PM The City of Los Angeles is complying with the Clean Water Act [...]

Another Emerald Necklace Jewel was added to the community on March 10th, 2012.  The City Project attended the grand opening of Gibson Mariposa Park in the City of El Monte.  Thanks to the outstanding efforts from community activist and diverse efforts from City Councils, Elected Officials, and Amigos De Los Rios, the City of El [...]

The Garvanza Park Stormwater BMP Project captures and cleans more than one million gallons of rain and runoff.  Water is diverted into two large cisterns under the park.  Water is cleaned and filtered and soaks into the soil to replenish the groundwater.  The other chamber stores water to  irrigate the park.  The project will help [...]

Soccer players warm up in the Baldwin Hills park. See The City Project’s policy report How to Keep Baldwin Hills Clean and Green for Generations to Come and the agreement to better protect human health and the environment in the Baldwin Hills.

Environmental Grantmakers Association State of the States 2012 The Perils of Shrinking Government: New Challenges for Our Environment Across the nation, state and local governments are accelerating the pace of deregulation and privatization of public services, resources and more. These “solutions” are endangering common assets and the public trust, and are putting at risk the [...]

SoCal > Departures > Land of Sunshine > Green Justice > L.A. State Historic Park: A Deserted Railroad Yard is Transformed Yet Unfinished SHARE by Robert Garcia on February 23, 2012 11:38 AM “On a deserted railroad yard north of Chinatown, one of Los Angeles’ most powerful and tenacious real estate developers, Ed Roski, Jr., met his match,” reported Jesus Sanchez in a front page article in [...]

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The South Central Los Angeles Wetlands Park is funded in part through the settlement agreement resolving the Clean Water Justice action to improve the City of Los Angeles sewer system city wide. The action resulted in a $2 billion settlement agreement and court order in 2004. This work in and out of court is a best practice example [...]

Diverse allies have submitted public comments to the National Park Service in support of the proposed National Recreation Area to bring the San Gabriel Mountains closer to the people – and take the people to the mountains. View of the San Gabriel Mountains from the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area. The allies recommend that NPS [...]

Green Justice Bringing the San Gabriel Mountains Closer to the People by Robert Garcia Paco Serrano, a Highland Park youth advocate with the Anahuak Youth Sports Association, will drive three hours to go hiking and camping in Lake Isabella in the heart of the Kern River Valley, but he has never been to the Angeles [...]