City Council deems Long Beach the Aquatic Capital of America. We prefer Iowa-by-the-(Dead)-Sea

PHOTO by ANDREAS GRADIN
Lifelong environmental pioneer Dorothy Green is dead, and it’s hard not to notice she passed away just six days after the Long Beach City Council voted unanimously to call Long Beach the “Aquatic Capital of America.”
In 1985, Green founded Heal [...]

Lifetime environmental pioneer Dorothy Green died Monday night at age 79, and it’s hard not to notice that she passed away just six days after the Long Beach City Council voted unanimously to call Long Beach the “Aquatic Capital of America.”
Green founded Heal The Bay, the landmark organization that has monitored ocean water quality along [...]

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Heal The Bay’s new “Beach Bummer” report card pushes Long Beach—historically a champ when it comes to poisoning itself—all the way down to #7 and grants top polluting honors to Avalon Harbor Beach on beautiful Catalina Island. I was a little surprised—considering that I’ve personally seen a seagull with a cigar right in front of [...]