Christina Dunbar-Hester, "Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
New Books in Public Policy
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The Negative Impacts of Los Angeles' Oil Industry
The author of a new book about the oil industry in Los Angeles. He says it's "not how LA would choose to sort of advertise itself" The area is heavily industrialized, but also has rich wetlands and marine life that can't be easily seen at first glance. And yet there are negative impacts which were on right all the way through the books.
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