They would, however, undermine newly passed state labor laws and fulfill their enduring goal of eviscerating the groundbreaking California Environmental Quality Act. Long Beach community activist Theral GoldenAdvertisementCEQA, as it’s known, has been a target of builders and industrialists ever since it was signed in 1970 by Gov. Air quality in the Los Angeles and Long Beach communities ringing the port has long ranked among the worst in the country. “The health impacts have been overlooked and are really significant,” says Andrea Hricko, professor emerita in environmental health at USC. Those effects are sure to be exacerbated by the measures being taken to clear the port logjam, such as round-the-clock operations, as President Biden has advocated.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 31, 2021 05:16 UTC