CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 24, 1999
The California environmental group Communities for a Better Environment on Thursday announced a settlement with one of several oil companies the group sued in federal court two years ago. Ultramar, which has a refinery in Wilmington, has agreed to several measures to reduce pollution there, a spokesman for the environmental group said.
BUSINESS
August 19, 1999 | Stephen Gregory
Chicago-based GATX Corp., which operates a network of oil pipelines in the Los Angeles harbor area, was ordered to spend $750,000 to upgrade its system as part of a court settlement of felony and misdemeanor charges stemming from an oil leak last year in Wilmington. Compton Superior Court Judge Rose Hom also ordered the company to pay $90,000 in punitive damages resulting from a pin-hole-size leak in a pipeline that trickled hundreds of gallons of oil into Compton Creek late last summer.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
July 11, 1999 | CECILIA RASMUSSEN
The proposed Angel City business and entertainment center on Crown Hill just west of downtown Los Angeles already has aroused criticism, most of it surrounding the development's novel centerpiece: a giant, sword-wielding bronze angel that builders hope to place atop a 750-foot tower. A little more than a century ago, the neighborhood was also a focus of public attention, much of it centering on a deeply religious piano teacher-turned-wildcatter, Emma A.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 27, 1997 | HUGO MARTIN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
When the last length of pipe is laid next year, the $170-million Pacific Pipeline will pump 130,000 barrels of heated crude oil each day through the heart of Los Angeles. The project will cut a route through one of the most seismically active regions in the state. It will bisect the most densely populated minority communities in the city and run only 30 feet below an aqueduct that carries 75% of Los Angeles' water supply.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 24, 1997 | HUGO MARTIN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Ending a seven-year legal battle, the Los Angeles City Council approved a settlement Wednesday that clears the way for construction of a pipeline that will carry 130,000 barrels of heated crude oil per day from Kern County through the San Fernando Valley, northeast and South Los Angeles to refineries in Wilmington.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 24, 1997 | HUGO MARTIN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Ending a seven-year legal battle, the Los Angeles City Council approved a settlement Wednesday that clears the way for construction of a pipeline that will carry 130,000 barrels of crude oil per day from Kern County through the San Fernando Valley to refineries in Wilmington. The settlement came on a 9-2 vote at the behest of the city attorney's office, which told the council that further legal challenges to the controversial Pacific Pipeline would probably fail.