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After years of enduring the stench of spoiled meat and decaying carcasses from nearby rendering plants, residents of southeast Los Angeles County could finally see some relief under new rules approved Friday.
Air quality regulators adopted long-delayed measures aimed at reducing odors from Vernon-area rendering plants, which they say can drift into neighborhoods miles away, causing headaches, nausea and respiratory irritation.
The unanimous vote by the South Coast Air Quality Management District board followed testimony from residents and schoolchildren from Boyle Heights and other communities who complained of odors so putrid they have to cover their mouths and close their doors to avoid nausea and breathing problems.
“What community other than a low-income and largely minority community would have to endure the smell of rotting flesh for decades without any government intervention?” said Martin Schlageter, policy director for Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar, who represents Boyle Heights. “That wouldn’t be happening in a wealthy community. It’s happening in Boyle Heights, and it has been for decades.”
The new standards target the region’s five rendering plants, which take animal parts and carcasses from slaughterhouses, meatpacking operations and grocery stores and turn them into fats and proteins used in pet food, fertilizer, soap and other products. Companies will have to enclose some outdoor operations and take other odor-control measures. The air district says the stench from the plants can drift across a dozen southeast L.A. County communities, including the cities of Commerce, Vernon, Maywood and Bell.
The rules come after delays by regulators and opposition from industry, which warned that they would be costly and result in job losses. Though odor rules govern plants in states such as Utah, Mississippi and Texas, the Southern California air district previously imposed no such limits on rendering operations.
Rendering plant odors are only one of a slew of environmental ills that impair health and quality of life in the mostly Latino communities around the heavily industrial city of Vernon. The same neighborhoods have long suffered from a heavy concentration of polluting businesses and diesel trucks, including decades of lead contamination from the now-shuttered Exide Technologies battery recycling plant.
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