Southern California air quality officials will dramatically raise fees on toxic polluters to help pay for monitoring and inspecting health-damaging emissions.
The Phillips 66 refinery looms over a neighborhood in the Wilmington neighborhood of Los Angeles. A fee increase adopted by Southern California officials will pay for a greater share of the costs of regulating toxic air pollution from refineries and other facilities.
The decision followed two public hearings that included emotional testimony from people who reside in some of the area’s worst-polluted communities. They urged officials to raise fees as quickly as possible to help ease asthma, cancer and other health problems they suffer living and going to school near oil refineries, cement plants, metal factories and other heavy industry.
“I think the polluters should be paying a lot more,” Hahn said at a public meeting last month. “They’re not paying their fair share.” In May, the air quality board delayed a scheduled vote on the fee hikes to address industry complaints. Business groups wanted a four-year phase-in of the fees, citing among other reasons, the need for additional testing to more accurately report their emissions.
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