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Environment & Animal Welfare

October 7, 2024

It's been four years since scientists rediscovered hundreds of tons of DDT—a pesticide banned for its toxicity and risk to humans—dumped into the ocean just off the coast of Los Angeles.


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October 3, 2024

LOS ANGELES – Today, Congressman Ted Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement in the wake of Hurricane Helene’s landfall across of the southeastern United States.


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August 22, 2024

LOS ANGELES - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after the City of Los Angeles agreed to pay $20 million to help clean the Santa Monica Bay after the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant spill in 2021.


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June 5, 2024

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced that he submitted 15 requests for Community Project Funding to the House Committee on Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2025.


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March 25, 2024

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-CA) and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) introduced H.R.


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March 13, 2024

WASHINGTON -Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced that he secured nearly $2.5 million in federal funding for landslide and flood mitigation projects throughout Los Angeles County. The Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations bill was signed into law by President Biden on Saturday, March 9, 2024.


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March 13, 2024

WASHINGTON -Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced that he secured nearly $1 million in federal funding for the City of Beverly Hills Water Resiliency Project. The Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations bill was signed into law by President Biden on Saturday, March 9, 2024.


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January 17, 2024

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) introduced the Glue Trap Prohibition Act, a bill to place a national ban on the possession and use of glue traps to catch rodents.