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June 9, 2011
Bijan Pakzad, Designer and Billboard King, Remembered
Juan Soliz/NewscomBijan PakzadIranian fashion and fragrance designer Bijan Pakzad -- who died April 16 of a stroke in Beverly Hills -- was, we are told, "the most expensive menswear designer in the world." Those who packed Royce Hall at UCLA to memorialize him in the warmth of springtime w ... More >>
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April 28, 2011
American Lung Association to Los Angeles: Your Air Quality Sucks!
Ted SoquiL.A. housing complex near the air pollution of busy freeway.The American Lung Association just released a health report Los Angeles politicians will most probably try to ignore, and hope the public will not notice, but facts are facts: Los Angeles' air quality sucks, and its residen ... More >>
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January 20, 2011
Los Angeles Scores High 'C' for Tobacco Control; Bell, Cudahy Info 'Incomplete,' Say Researchers
Smoking problem? Or transparency problem?Hooray, L.A. City Council! Your ceaseless attempts to ban smoking in every last nook of Los Angeles have finally paid off. You got a 'C' on the American Lung Association's "State of Tobacco Control" report card for 2010, and we couldn't be more proud. ... More >>
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June 23, 2010
Smoking Rates Up In West Hollywood, South L.A., South Bay
Despite nationwide efforts to curb smoking, a recent study released by the county Department of Public Health has revealed that rates of lighting up in Los Angeles have remained steady since 2002, though some areas, including West Hollywood, South Los Angeles and the South Bay have seen incre ... More >>
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April 28, 2010
L.A. Tops List Of 'Most Polluted Cities'
NASAOld timers will tell you it's not like it used to be, when Los Angeles would be socked in for weeks at a time by dense smog that ringed the foothills and capped the basin. It has been a long time. Still, comparatively speaking, L.A. is still tops when it comes to air pollution. The Ameri ... More >>
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March 11, 2010
True Grit
NASAOld timers will tell you it's not like it used to be, when Los Angeles would be socked in for weeks at a time by dense smog that ringed the foothills and capped the basin. It has been a long time. Still, comparatively speaking, L.A. is still tops when it comes to air pollution. The Ameri ... More >>
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July 2, 2009
Envirowimps: L.A.'s Big Green Groups Get Comfy
Activists leave the street-fighting to the little guys
Blogs
May 1, 2009
Villaraigosa's Strange Clean Air Claim
As L.A. Weekly often reports, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has a habit of making strange claims -- remember how he calls himself the hardest working mayor in America and says, with LAPD Chief Bill Bratton's blessing, that L.A. is as safe as 1956? This week, longtime Daily News scribe Rick ... More >>
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April 29, 2009
California Pollution Report: The Lung Goodbye
Today the American Lung Association released its state of the air report. The survey flunked 32 California counties, while awarding 16 counties A's. L.A. County was definitely not among the latter, scoring F-eroos in two categories, High Ozone Days and Particle Pollution. According to the ALA, this ... More >>
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April 28, 2009
Pollution Report: The Choke's on Us
For all the talk about America's "greening," 60 percent of us still live in areas with dangerously high pollution, according to a new American Lung Association report. Basing their conclusions on state and local statistics gathered by the Environmental Protection Agency between 2005 and 2007, the AL ... More >>
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February 19, 2009
It Pays to Be Green: On Beth Barrett's Measure B Story
For all the talk about America's "greening," 60 percent of us still live in areas with dangerously high pollution, according to a new American Lung Association report. Basing their conclusions on state and local statistics gathered by the Environmental Protection Agency between 2005 and 2007, the AL ... More >>
LA Life
May 10, 2007
Peter Woods
Collective reasoning
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October 6, 2005
Lung Gone
Collective reasoning
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September 22, 2005
The Air That We Breathe
Just when it looked like we might win the war on smog, a new and more deadly form of air pollution stalks Los Angeles
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September 22, 2005
Stench of Politics
Industry money to the �Mod Caucus� fouls the fight for clean air
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September 22, 2005
Outing Polluters
Industry money to the �Mod Caucus� fouls the fight for clean air
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September 22, 2005
I�ve Got You Under My Skin
Remembering the stinging lungs of an L.A. boyhood
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July 24, 2003
A Chokehold on the Future
Hopes for cleaner air disappear into the haze
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March 18, 1999
Crash and Burn
Tobacconists report rise in heists to match price hikes

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