Sierra Club Oil Infrastructure Toxic Tour – Sierra Club of Los Angeles Bike Tour of Toxic Sites

Sierra Club members from the Los Angeles Chapter joined with former mayor of Culver City, Meghan Sahli-Wells, also known as the “Biking Mayor,” whose only mode of transportation is a bicycle, and former Pro Cyclist Phil Gaimon, to tour Los Angeles’ toxic industrial and oil infrastructure sites within the city limits in a bike group ride.

Conversations on the bike tour address how black and brown communities are directly impacted by toxic sites and oil producing industries.  Meghan Sahli-Wells, who has championed environmental justice and building progressive power both locally and nationally, speaks of the perilous hazards of oil extraction within communities and usage of city resources such as the Fire Department to contend with disasters and overflowing crude oil from oil drilling extraction rigs into city street storm sewers draining into the oceans.

 

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