Newsletter
Spring 2007
Oil Drilling and Community Health
in Baldwin Hills
The City Project has worked with
diverse community groups for years
to help make the dream come true for
a two square mile park in the Baldwin
Hills in the historic African American
heart of Los Angeles. We worked
with the community to stop the power
plant in the Park in 2001, to stop the
garbage dump in the Park in 2003,
and to save the Baldwin Hills Conservancy
and budget in 2005 when a
governor's commission threatened to
eliminate both.
The Baldwin Hills community and
park are once again at risk with the
proposed expansion of oil drilling
nearby. An area environmental impact
report is in the works. We are committed
to working with public officials
to engage and empower the community
and ensure full and fair analyses
of environmental and health impacts
in the months to come.
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