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Senators hear testimony on Chiquita Canyon landfill fire; AB 28 would force earlier agency action when landfill heat spikes
Summary
Assemblymember Luz Rivas Schiavo told the Senate Environmental Quality Committee that AB 28 is designed to prevent another prolonged, burning‑landfill disaster after testimony describing years of smoke, illness and enforcement notices at the Chiquita Canyon site.
Assemblymember Luz Rivas Schiavo presented AB 28 to the Senate Committee on Environmental Quality, saying the burning Chiquita Canyon landfill in Los Angeles County has become a public‑health disaster and ‘‘should really never happen in any other community.’’
The bill would require corrective action when wellhead or subsurface temperatures exceed thresholds, bring CalRecycle into an early lead role coordinating local enforcement agencies and operators, give local enforcement agencies authority to pause landfill operations and to seek state emergency declarations, and create penalties and a fund to support relocation and medical/home…
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