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'Cool Community' Project Yields Promising Results

10-block area in one of L.A.’s most heat-prone neighborhoods saw significant reductions in surface and air temperature thanks to an innovative street treatment that could help communities around the country mitigate the impacts of extreme heat. ....

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The Push To Reimagine LA's Streets And Alleyways To Fight Both Drought And Floods

From Sun Valley To South Central, "Green Alleys" are helping to alleviate flooding in neighborhoods while making space for nature in a paved-over city. ....

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The GAF Cool Community Project will assess and mitigate the impacts of the urban heat island effect in landlocked and underserved cities — beginning with the Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacoima. ....

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Three New Directors Join Metropolitan's Board Representing Los Angeles, San Fernando, Municipal Water District of Orange County

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Three New Directors Join Metropolitan’s Board Representing Los Angeles, San Fernando, Municipal Water District of Orange County
March 10, 2021 GMT
LOS ANGELES (BUSINESS WIRE) Mar 9, 2021
Three new directors representing the cities of Los Angeles and San Fernando, and the Municipal Water District of Orange County were seated today on the board of directors of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.
Environmental and social justice advocate Miguel Luna joins the 38-member board as a Los Angeles representative, succeeding Jesús Quiñonez, who served since 2006. Government relations consultant Adan Ortega returns to Metropolitan to represent San Fernando, replacing Sylvia Ballin, who served as a director from 2007 to 2018 and from May 2019 to February 2021. Water industry veteran Dennis Erdman joins the board to represent the Municipal Water District of ....

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Petition To Halt State Ballona Wetlands Project Reaches 9,000

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Ballona Wetlands are some of the last remaining coastal wetlands in California located in the Marina del Rey, Culver City and Playa del Rey area. (Nicole Charky | Patch )
PLAYA DEL REY, CA The battle to save the Ballona Wetlands waged on this week as a petition opposing a restoration approved by the State garnered nearly 9,000 signatures as of Tuesday.
It is under threat to be bulldozed and have more than 2 million cubic yards of life-filled soils excavated, moved around and re-sculpted, as if one can play Frankenstein with nature, the petition states. This plan is for an amusement-type park that would eliminate habitat for many of the rare species that rely on Ballona today . this is not a good use of public money that was meant for protection of wetlands, grasslands and other fragile habitats. ....

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