Boyle Heights and East LA with highest rate of Exide contamination, new state data shows

Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles have the highest rate of homes with hazardous levels of lead contamination from the shuttered Exide Technologies battery recycling plant in Vernon, an analysis of newly-releas... Read More...

Community input sought for Nature Park proposed at Ramona Gardens

An open green space filled with native trees and plants could help reduce air and noise pollution in what is considered one of the three most polluted communities in California. That community is Ramona Garden... Read More...

New AQMD regulations aimed at stench from rendering plants

New air quality regulations aim to curb the stench from local animal processing plants that have long plagued Boyle Heights and the surrounding community. The South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) ... Read More...

Report warns of rising costs of caring for growing Latino population with Alzheimer’s disease

By Henrik Rehbinder Latinos tend to believe that memory loss and confusion is a normal part of growing old. They accept that grandpa’s forgetfulness or grandmother’s difficulty in making decisions or followi... Read More...

Eastside residents await solutions to Exide decades-long health disaster

By Ryan White On a hot, cloudless July morning, Jill Johnston was busy poking around the front yard of 87-year-old Bob Eula with a shockingly expensive hand-held X-ray machine whose beam detects levels of le... Read More...

Herbalife customers keep buying in Boyle Heights unaware of controversy

Editor's Note: On July 15, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission announced that Herbalife must pay $200 million to compensate consumers who believed the company's claims that they could get rich selling its diet a... Read More...

Most homes tested for Exide lead contamination will need cleanup

Almost all of the properties tested for contamination by the Exide battery recycling plant have turned up lead levels that require clean up. KPCC reports that 99 percent of properties tested by both California’... Read More...

Sex education classes are back to schools

By Ariana Palominos Boyle Heights Beat Starting this fall, students in California’s public schools will be required to take a sex education class, something that has been missing in many schools for the l... Read More...

Sunday is the last day to sign up for health insurance before a tax penalty takes effect

Sunday is the last day to avoid health coverage tax penalties. People without health insurance coverage, as mandated by the federal government, could be hit with a heavy tax penalty, EGP News reports. Those cov... Read More...

Exide plant cleanup criticized by state regulators, elected officials

The cleanup around the closed Exide plant in Vernon is going too slow, state regulators, community activists, and local elected officials said Tuesday during a hearing of the State Assembly Committee on Environ... Read More...

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