002

Page 1

Air pollution is getting worse and worse by the year. The people making landfills, tire burnings, nuclear waste transport, and a bunch of waste dumps. In its decision to permit this new gas plant, the Antelope Valley Air Quality Management District illegally transferred air pollution credits into the faraway heavily polluted Antelope Valley, worsening the situation for community members there, in order to build a large hybrid natural gas power plant. They have decided to file a lawsuit. The lawsuit challenges the transfer of credits of Nitrogen Oxides and Volatile Organic Compounds into the Antelope Valley AQMD to facilitate building the Palmdale Hybrid Power Plant. The lawsuit claims the Antelope Valley AQMD failed to comply with California’s Clean Air Act in approving credits that would allow this project to be built. We as people can stop the air pollution. You as people can start by attempting to quit smoking because every little bit helps. By Abraham O.


the public. It isn’t just us but we can start improving if we are to make this world a whole lot better and cleaner because we are going to be living on the planet for a long time. The organizations have started to do something now as individuals you must start and stop polluting the water.

By Abraham O. Water pollution They have found 35 percent of untreated ground water in the antelope valley. USGS scientists analyzed untreated groundwater from wells in the desert region, looking for as many as 207 chemical constituents. California's desert region includes Antelope Valley, Coachella Valley, Indian Wells Valley, Owens Valley, Mojave River area, and the Colorado River basin. The USGS is monitoring and assessing water quality in 120 priority groundwater basins, and groundwater outside of basins. The main goals of the State Water Board’s GAMA Program Priority Basin Project are to improve comprehensive statewide groundwater monitoring and to increase the availability of groundwater-quality information to


Turn static files into dynamic content formats.

Create a flipbook
Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios, online yearbooks, online catalogs, digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.