[CPEO-BIF] Los Angeles oil field fumes

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[Another reminder that much of Los Angeles was and is an oil  
production area. - LS]


[Another reminder that much of Los Angeles was and is an oil  
production area. - LS]


EPA officers sickened by fumes at South L.A. oil field The inspectors  
suffered sore throats and headaches during a visit to Allenco Energy  
Co. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) urges a temporary shutdown pending  
an investigation.

By Louis Sahagun
Los Angeles Times
November 8, 2013


Federal environmental officers were sickened by toxic vapors as they  
toured a south Los Angeles urban oil field whose emissions are blamed  
by neighbors for a variety of ailments, an EPA official said Friday.

Jared Blumenfeld, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regional  
administrator for the Pacific Southwest, was among those stricken by  
the fumes during the recent tour of the Allenco Energy Co. site in  
University Park, about a half-mile north of USC.

"I've been to oil and gas production facilities throughout the  
region, but I've never had an experience like that before," Bumenfeld  
said. "We suffered sore throats, coughing and severe headaches that  
lingered for hours."

U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) on Friday urged Allenco to suspend  
operations immediately pending completion of an EPA investigation,  
which was prompted by hundreds of complaints from neighbors who blame  
the noxious odors for persistent respiratory ailments, headaches,  
nausea and nosebleeds.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-1109- 
fumes-20131109,0,3711063.story#axzz2k1kkmqxi

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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