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To the editor:Treating fossil fuels like nuclear weapons is an approach commensurate with the global climate crisis, but we must also pursue local-level solutions to the public health and air quality crisis created by Big Oil.
Los Angeles communities living in the toxic shadow of this industry need a rapid phase-out of fossil fuel extraction and consumption. However, the actions by many elected officials and regulatory agencies have often not matched their rhetoric on climate change and racial justice.
Los Angeles officials have the power to stop the proliferation of fossil fuels, but only through working with impacted communities to develop and implement concrete policies that close the oil wells harming the health of low-income communities of color.
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Mary Nichols fell from the frontrunner position this week after 74 activists signed a letter to the Biden transition team arguing that she hadn t worked well with environmental justice groups. | Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo
California environmentalists quietly seethe at activists over Nichols losing EPA job
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SAN FRANCISCO The last-minute toppling of Mary Nichols as the leading contender for the nation s highest environmental post has left many in California s green movement quietly seething at more liberal colleagues who openly advocated against her.
Nichols, the state s longtime California Air Resources Board chair, was often considered the most qualified leader in contention for the Environmental Protection Agency position and believed to have been the frontrunner for weeks, enjoying support from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and numerous House Democrats.
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His choice is Liane Randolph, a lawyer who has served as Deputy Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency and most recently as commissioner on the California Public Utilities Commission.
Randolph has been described as thorough, detail-oriented, smart, well-organized, and politically savvy by those who have worked with her. She will be the first Black chair of the board, and advocates are hoping that will make her a strong voice for equity in an organization that has recently been called to do better on this issue both for its staff and on its policies.