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No Drilling Where We’re Living with Martha Arguello

July 16, 2020 by Jack Eidt 2 comments

Martha Arguello of Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles discusses with host Jessica Aldridge neighborhood oil drilling, the call for a 2,500 ft. health and safety buffer, and how community mobilization is addressing the climate emergency and ensuring public health and environmental protection. Martha leads the coalition Stand Together Against Neighborhood Drilling in Los Angeles. They work in a statewide coalition dedicated to buffers as well called Voices in Solidarity Against Oil in Neighborhoods.

EcoJustice Radio, Energy

REFINEMENT: Cracking the Plastic Production Boom – Plastic Plague Pt 2

March 19, 2020 by Jack Eidt 7 comments

REFINEMENT – Once extracted, how does oil and gas become the resin that will eventually be the plastic we use in our daily lives? Then we buy these products, the social and environmental justice issues are covered up by cool marketing campaigns.

EcoJustice Radio, Environmental Health

Jesse Marquez: Public Preparedness for Threats from Refineries, Ports, and Freeways

November 27, 2019 by Jack Eidt 2 comments

Environmental Justice Activist Jesse Marquez speaks with EcoJustice Radio how communities can prepare to confront the dangers of living around five oil refineries, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and hemmed in by the truck-clogged 710 and 110 freeways.

Reverend Oliver Buie - faith and environmentalism

EcoJustice Radio

Urban Oil Drilling and the Intersection Between Faith and Environmentalism

November 20, 2019 by Jack Eidt 2 comments

On Episode 45 of EcoJustice Radio our guest Reverend Oliver Buie, Minister of Community Engagement at the Holman United Methodist Church in South Los Angeles, speaks with Jessica Aldridge on the important relationship between faith and environmentalism and what his parish has been doing to promote environmental and social justice in their community.

As a member of the Steering Committee of STAND-LA, he speaks to the environmental justice movement to institute a 2,500-foot health and safety buffer between oil drilling and where people live, in particular motivated by the Murphy Oil Drilling site near his South Los Angeles church.

EcoJustice Radio, Environmental Health

We Can’t Burn Our Way to Zero Waste – EcoJustice Radio

July 25, 2018 by The Outpost 2 comments

Why is incineration in direct opposition with Zero Waste and social and environmental justice? Hear from local and international groups working together to fight this beastly issue.

socal gas, porter ranch, aliso canyon gas storage

EcoJustice Radio

Dangers from Natural Gas Leaks – EcoJustice Radio

December 28, 2017 by Jack Eidt 1 comment

Southern California Gas Company was responsible for a recent chemical spill in the Rancho Park area of West Los Angeles that caused a strong gas-like odor to blanket surrounding neighborhoods. The Los Angeles City Council directed various agencies to investigate, with area residents and two councilmen voicing heavy criticism of SoCal Gas’s handling of post-spill communications.

Climate, Politics and Advocacy

Jerry Brown Passes Cap and Trade Written by the Oil Industry

July 23, 2017 by The Outpost 1 comment

California extended its Cap and Trade system until 2030, a symbolic move that actually allows grave concessions to the oil industry, ties the hands of local agencies ability to regulate greenhouse gases, and threatens both the state’s climate goals and the health of communities, ecosystems and the planet. RL Miller unveils the ugly political process where the Jerry Brown had the oil industry write the bill and forced the rest to go along.

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