Student activist Jolene Rodriguez fights for clean air

PHOTO by JENNIE WARREN
“Hello, I am Jolene Rodriguez,” Jolene Rodriguez said—or read, actually: the 16-year-old in T-shirt, jeans and tennies was so nervous the night she addressed Mayor Bob Foster and the Long Beach City Council that she relied on notes even to introduce herself. “I am a [...]

The clean trucks ordinance chugging past the Harbor Commission–and lone dissenting Harbor Commissioner Mario Cordero–which The District Weekly’s Dave Wielenga wrote about Wednesday, coasted through another green light Monday.
As LBReport.com’s Bill Pearl writes:
“In an action that opponents vowed to appeal to [Long Beach's] elected City Council (without indicating their procedure for doing so), [Long Beach's] [...]

Unwilling to attach his name to the Port of Long Beach’s secret settlement with the American Trucking Association, Harbor Commissioner Mario Cordero casts a vote for integrity

Someday, perhaps even this week, as a few more people living within the Port of Long Beach’s toxic cloud of commerce lie down upon their premature deathbeds—casualties of ports-related [...]