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 [...]

ABC News reports on a new study that claims that the briny sea air you’re currently sucking up might be fostering nitryl chloride, a chemical that encourages the formation of ozone:
The highest levels of nitryl chloride occurred at night, when nitrogen oxides – from ship exhaust plumes and industrial pollution – mixed with chlorine from [...]

We may not have any waves and our water may be filled with pharmaceuticals, but it could always be worse. Toxic, even.
So goes Geoff Manaugh on the all-knowing BLDGBLOG  with a post on how the U.S. military (and plenty of other countries, too) dumped tons of chemical weapons into the ocean starting way back in [...]

Clean beaches, surfing, a new source of energy—and an expanded port. The world according to Keith Higginbotham

PHOTO by JENNIFER STOCKDALE
The entire solution to Long Beach’s dirty, stagnant coastline fits in the blue cotton hoodie wrapped around the head of Keith Higginbotham.
He has a plan to make waves where there are none, turn muck into clean [...]

PHOTO by DANIEL DE BOOM
The day after a heavy storm hit Long Beach, some finally found use for our perennially filthy beach.
The stormy sea spewed forth a treasure trove of bounty last night in the form of balls (of every conceivable sort: soccer, base, kick, foot, tennis) as well as toys, tires, coolers, (sadly empty) [...]

Breathing easy by 2012
A month ago, the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles issued new regulations aimed at cutting down on the pollution belched out by trucks, and now it’s the state’s turn. The California Air Resources Board is considering new regulations for the state’s ports, covering trucks and more.