Environmental
Mar. 5, 2013
Los Angeles fighting back in federal court over dust payments
The city of Los Angeles is struggling to gain the upper hand over a small air pollution control agency in a power struggle that traces its roots back a century when it diverted water from the Owens River to supply its growing population.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The city of Los Angeles is struggling to gain the upper hand over a small air pollution control agency in a power struggle that traces its roots back a century when the city diverted water from the Owens River to supply its growing population. That move, dramatized in the film "Chinatown," dried up the Owens Lake bed and brought a plague of epic dust storms to the area 200 miles northeast of Los Angele...
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