EDITORIAL
New York Times
Published: January 4, 2009
Unlike President Bush, Barack Obama is going to enter office with a clear appreciation of the urgent problems of climate change and America’s growing dependency on foreign oil — and a strong commitment to address both.

One way he can do this is to give mass transit — trains, buses, commuter [...]

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WE WON! DIVERSE ALLIES SAVED PANHE AND SAN ONOFRE, AND STOPPED THE TOLL ROAD!

Malibu Public Access for All

Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities Los Angeles City Council Highlights

Vista Hermosa Park Grand Opening

SCAG Multiagency Effort to Improve Access to Parks and Recreation

Miguel Contreras Schools, Pools and Parks Open to the Community!

Enforce [...]

Jim Lafferty interviews NRDC’s Staff Attorney Daman Nagami and The City Project’s President and Counsel Robert Garcia about the Baldwin Hills lawsuits seeking to improve the environmental impact report and oil field regulations.
Listen to the complete December 4, 2008, KPFK podcast by clicking here.
Listen to the Baldwin Hills highlights by clicking here.
Learn more at www.greaterbaldwinhillsalliance.org [...]

L.A. County Plan for Expanded Urban Oil Drilling Draws Fire
By Peter B. Matuszak
Daily Journal Staff Writer
peter_matuszak@dailyjournal.com
www.dailyjournal.com/law
December 1, 2008
LOS ANGELES - Environmentalists and community groups have filed three lawsuits against a county-approved plan to expand oil drilling in the heart of South Los Angeles.
The county Board of Supervisors in October gave the go-ahead to Houston-based Plains [...]

Concerned Citizens of South Central Los Angeles and The City Project today filed a lawsuit against the County of Los Angeles to protect people, homes, and parklands in the Baldwin Hills more than oil company profits. The suit challenges the County’s environmental impact report and oil drilling regulations covering the oil field adjoining the Baldwin [...]

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PHAI Publishes Presentation Slides from Fifth Conference on Public Health, Law and Obesity
Thursday, October 16th, 2008

The Public Health Advocacy Institute held its Fifth Conference on Public Health, Law, and Obesity on September 19-21, 2008. It was entitled “A Time for Action: An Obesity Agenda for the Next Administration” and was co-sponsored [...]

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There’s been much controversy about the boom in oil drilling around Baldwin Hills, where residents say the oil wells are noisy, unsightly and potentially unhealthy. Well, L.A. County officials now have an idea for dealing with the unsightly part: Plant [...]

The Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance is demanding that the Baldwin Hills oil field regulations be consistent with the Final Environmental Report that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved on October 21, 2008, and the actions of the Regional Planning Commission.  The Board is scheduled to take action on October 28, 2008.
In order to [...]

The beauty of the Baldwin Hills parks and homes is marred by urban oil field blight. Download 22 images of the active oil fields taken from the final Environmental Impact Report published in October 2008. [PDF 2.7 MB]

BRING YOUR FRIENDS!
BRING YOUR NEIGHBORS!
COME HEAR SUPERVISOR BURKE SPEAK FOR THE FIRST TIME
ON HER PLAN FOR THE BALDWIN HILLS OIL FIELD
Friday – October 11th
9:30 am
Kenneth Hahn Park
The Baldwin Hills Conservancy Board, chaired by Supervisor Burke is meeting this Friday – October 11th .
Supervisor Burke is holding a press conference BEFORE the meeting tomorrow starting at [...]