<story><title>Los Angeles hid power plant methane leak for a year</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-09-23/los-angeles-hid-a-methane-leak-for-a-year-activists-want-the-power-plant-shut-down</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>I don’t know the particulars of this location; however, often times it’s not dirty industry invading and settling in poor neighborhoods but rather poor neighborhoods sprouting up next to these industries because land is cheaper.&lt;p&gt;For example the Sriracha company settled in the middle of nowhere, the north San Jose water treatment facility was in the middle of nowhere but now you have housing next to them and people complaining about smells or pollution.&lt;p&gt;To avoid this you’ll need better more stringent zoning laws with bigger buffer zones.</text></comment>
<story><title>Los Angeles hid power plant methane leak for a year</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-09-23/los-angeles-hid-a-methane-leak-for-a-year-activists-want-the-power-plant-shut-down</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Cactus2018</author><text>NASA post about CA Methane:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; A Third of California Methane Traced to a Few Super-Emitters&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jpl.nasa.gov&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;news.php?feature=7535&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jpl.nasa.gov&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;news.php?feature=7535&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>