Press
Latest News
Members of Congress asked the federal government to help clean up toxic lead contamination from a former battery recycling plant outside Los Angeles.
Amid California’s long struggle to hold an industrial polluter accountable and remove lead contamination from neighborhoods southeast of downtown Los Angeles, members of Congress are now calling on the federal Environmental Protection Agency to assist in the troubled cleanup of areas surrounding the closed Exide battery recycling plant — the largest and most costly effort in California history.
Rep. Robert Garcia, the Long Beach democrat who recently finished two terms as the city’s mayor, has helped secure a $30 million federal grant to support a massive reconfiguration of West Shoreline Drive — which will add green space in the area.
[...]
The 51st Street Greenbelt is just one example of the city’s efforts to increase access to green space along the 710 Freeway.
Today, Congressman Robert Garcia (CA-42) announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded a $30,000,000 Reconnecting Communities Pilot (RCP) grant to the City of Long Beach to support the Shoreline Drive Gateway project.
Rep. Robert Garcia is doubling down on his disappointment with CBS for its handling of captioning Bad Bunny’s Grammys performance.
Washington D.C. - El congresista demócrata Robert García (California) envió una carta a la cadena CBS para cuestionar que no se utilizaran subtítulos para la traducción de la presentación musical de Bad Bunny y el mensaje con el cual aceptó el premio por