by TEAM APEN | Dec 9, 2025 | Blog, Events, Issues, Location, Los Angeles, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Statewide, Stories
Download the report here After years of asthma, sickness, and death for nearby residents, Los Angeles’ Phillips 66 refinery is on its way out. Now, frontline communities are counting on elected officials and responsible agencies to clean up refinery sites and ensure...
by Ann Alexander | Dec 5, 2025 | Blog, Location, Los Angeles, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Statewide, Stories
.By Ann Alexander, Author of “Before the Last Drop: Lessons from the Phillips 66 Los Angeles Refinery Closure” Sacramento has seen significant sturm and drang this year about the prospect of California oil refinery closures and the impact they could have...
by TEAM APEN | Oct 7, 2025 | Los Angeles, Media, Press Releases, Uncategorized
Contact: Isa Flores-Jones, ifloresjones@apenaction.org Blake Marquez, blake.marquez@sunstonestrategies.org El Segundo, CA – On Thursday, residents of the South Bay felt their homes rocked by an explosion of heat and flames from the El Segundo Chevron refinery....
by Jessica Aquino, APEN LA Member | Dec 16, 2024 | Los Angeles, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Stories
We deserve gardens, not refineries When I think about what I love about my city, the first thing that comes to mind is my grandparents’ garden. Some of the fondest memories of my childhood were playing with the seeds and plants in my grandparents’ backyard in Carson,...
by Janielle Torregosa | Oct 4, 2024 | Los Angeles, Stories
Land is Life: Three Lessons from Bai Bibyaon Ligkayan and the Lumad Community October 2024. Here we are: one full year since the genocide in Gaza ignited, the presidential elections are a month away, and people across the country are grieving and rebuilding in the...
by Janielle Torregosa | Jun 30, 2023 | Los Angeles, Stories
None of it would be possible without you! #APENLAunch Photos by Jireh Deng. Thank YOU for making our #APENLAunch a success! None of it would be possible without you! Thank you to the allies, friends, family, donors, vendors, APEN Oakland and Richmond members, and our...
