For immediate release:
- Furkan Yalcin
- furkan.yalcin@asm.ca.gov
The undersigned are writing to elevate an environmental hazard with ongoing health and safety impacts to the communities of the 40th Assembly District and beyond. Since 2023, the Chiquita Canyon landfill has had an underground smoldering event in a closed portion of the landfill, which has not only resulted in airborne emissions, requiring installation of additional flares, but also leachate and runoff that has entered the surrounding ecosystem.
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