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The Sun Rises on Climate Change Reform and a New Candidate By Jordan Darling, Editorial Intern
percent of adults felt that climate change should be a top priority for the legislature. With the 2020 election cycle quickly approaching, it is a hot button topic for a lot of voters, especially those feeling the effects of living in a community centered around oil refineries. Wilmington and Carson fall under District 64, which encompasses parts of Southern Los Angeles and the South Bay. The candidate standoff is between Fatima IqbalZubair who took 32.5 percent of the vote and incumbent Mike Gipson, who took 67.5 percent. [See Sun Rises, p. 2]
COVID-19 and the Climate Crisis:
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Assembly candidate for the 64th District, Fatima Iqbal-Zubai. Photo by Raphael Richardson
air over communities in the United States with 100 refineries in California and 11 throughout Southern California. The most at risk are people in poor socioeconomic areas, mainly minorities. Toxins released from refineries can increase the chance of cancer and other detrimental health concerns. The fight between climate change activists and refineries continues to be a prevalent topic as communities push to have refineries moved away from neighborhoods and homes. In a 2019 study, PEW Research recorded that 56
When you Google “How many oil refineries are there in Wilmington and Carson,” Google Maps opens a drawn screenshot of the area and 11 red tags pop up clustered together between San Pedro and Compton. “Refineries reported approximately 22,000 tons of hazardous air pollution to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2010,” EarthJustice, an environmental coalition based in San Francisco, states in its website. That is 22,000 tons of toxins released into the
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In an effort to place current events of this magnitude in perspective, this timeline of events untangles some of the chaos and confusion surrounding the pandemic now known as the COVID-19. Many of you may feel that remembering what happened at the beginning of this year is like trying to remember two years ago. The following are dates and events that are taken from readily available sources to better explain just how this disease became a crisis. — The Publisher
Graphic by Suzanne Matsumiya
By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor
he United States and South Korea both reported their first cases of COVID-19 within 24 hours of each other — Korea on Jan. 20, the United States the next day. Even though South Korea is much closer to China, and thus much more exposed, as of April 14, 222 people died of the virus in South Korea compared to a death toll of 25,658 in the United States. Adjusting for population, the United States had 24,224 deaths that it might not have had if it had reacted as quickly and effectively as South Korea did. Put another way, 17 of every 18 Americans who have died would not have died if the U.S. had responded as South Korea did. And you can’t say we weren’t warned. Donald Trump’s own Council of Economic Advisors told him that up to half a million Americans could die in a pandemic, as did his trade representative Peter Navarro. “The U.S. response will be studied for generations as a textbook example of a disastrous, failed effort,” Ron Klain, who led the 2014 fight against Ebola, told a
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