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  Inside:
  • Coke dust: You’re breathing it now.
  • Development: So long to another wetland?
  • Your air: full of diesel and bound for Grand Canyon.
  • Littering: on campus and at our beaches.
  • Water: Are you swimming in gunk?
  • Paint thinner: Students wash it down drain.
  • L.B. Airport: Planes leave waste behind.
 
VOL. VII,  NO. 111-B CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH   APRIL 27, 2000
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This investigative section was written and edited by students in the Journalism 420 class.

ADVISER

  • Ron Milligan
TEAM CHIEF
  • M.A. Anastasi
REPORTERS
  • Rebecca Brown
  • Christina Esparza
  • Greg Hanson
  • Kris Hanson
  • Tom Harshbarger
  • Jason Kosareff
  • Tracy Reynolds
  • Jennifer Umana
  • Johnna Walker
  • Don Weberg
PRODUCTION MANAGER
  • Leigh Smith
WEBMASTER
    Gerard Greenidge
. Danger lurking in L.B.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • Pollution, trash hide around us

    • Cancer-causing particles, tiny pieces of petroleum coke dust that omnipresent sea breezes pervasively carry throughout Long Beach, have entered your lungs.
     
  • Long Beach chokes on coke dust

    • It is not the white, powdery drug from Columbia that troubles area residents.
     
  • Environmentalists fight for Los Cerritos Wetlands

    • Environmentalists and the owners of the Los Cerritos Wetlands have reached a bitter stalemate over acquisition of the wetlands for public use and restoration.
     
  • Exhaust dominates dirty air

    • There was a time when it was a rarity to see towering Mt. Wilson rise above the Los Angeles skyline.
     
  • Long Beach’s gunk winds up in Grand Canyon

    • It is one of the world’s largest shipping ports. It has a commercial airport and four major freeways.
     
  • Dirty beaches, surf can leave public at risk

    • “Four or five years ago, ’’ said Bob Rodgers, a CSULB staff technician and an environmentalist, “we had a wide range of students getting involved in environmental issues. Now, it has become passe to be involved.’’
     
  • Paint thinner dumped down drain

    • Along with the beauty that comes with oil paintings emerging from the Fine Arts buildings comes a danger caused by chemicals aspiring artists use to create their masterpieces.
     
  • There’s not much love for this boat

    • Local environmental groups are sharply criticizing the location of a project that would build a Carnival Cruise Line terminal next to the Queen Mary that they say will result in the construction of new breakwaters and continue to destroy the beach.
     
  • Trash flows from river

    • It might just be the world’s largest trash receptacle.
     
  • Polluted harbor can’t be cleaned

    • As they import and export consumer goods, ships from across the world stop in the Port of Los Angeles. And they leave more than approved cargo behind.
     
  • Planes leave fine mist in air

    • Sally Purschell’s boys love to sit outside and watch the UPS planes fly overhead.

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