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Residents and health advocates urge council to revive oil phase‑out protections after court setback
Summary
Advocates and residents used public comment to press the City Council to agendize a motion on acid maintenance and to restore oil-phase-out protections that they say were removed by a court decision.
Residents, health advocates and environmental groups urged the Los Angeles City Council during public comment to take immediate steps to protect neighborhoods from so‑called acid maintenance work at oil wells and to restore a previously passed ordinance that, they said, was overturned in court.
Speakers representing community groups and health organizations asked Council Member David Ryu Nazarian (referenced by commenters) and the Energy and Environment Committee to agendize council file 24-1580, described by multiple speakers as the asset‑maintenance motion addressing acid jobs. "We urge council member Nazarian to agendize the asset maintenance motion at the next Energy and Environment Committee hearing," said Camille Samuels, identified in public comment as a PhD researcher and environmental justice fellow with…
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