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City Council extends wildfire emergency as residents urge action on oil "acid maintenance" and phase-out motion
Summary
The Los Angeles City Council adopted an extension of the city's wildfire emergency with an 11-aye roll call after a lengthy public comment period in which community groups pressed the council to agendize a motion on oil-site "acid maintenance" and to reinstate or replace the overturned oil phase-out ordinance.
The Los Angeles City Council voted to adopt an extension of the city's wildfire emergency, closing public comment and recording an 11-aye tally to pass the measure.
The vote came after roughly two hours of public comment during which dozens of speakers — many representing frontline environmental-justice organizations — asked the council to take additional steps to limit hazardous oil-field work known in the transcript as “acid maintenance.” Speakers repeatedly asked Councilmember (or office of) Kevin Nazarian to agendize council file 24-1580 (the “asset maintenance” motion) and for the council to move quickly to rescind the old oil phase-out ordinance and pass a new replacement.
The prolonged public record included testimony from local residents and organizers who described health and air-quality impacts they link to acidizing operations at nearby wells. Camille, introduced in public comment as “a PhD…
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