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WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County), along with Reps. Nannette Diaz Barragán (D-CA), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Jared Huffman (D-CA) and Salud Carbajal (D-CA), urged the Biden-Harris Administration to take action to mitigate dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) contamination in the waters along southern California’s coast.
LOS ANGELES – Today, Congressman Ted W.
LOS ANGELES – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement on the one-year anniversary of the October 7th terrorist attacks in Israel.
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. For at least 15 years, Montrose Chemical Corporation improperly disposed of DDT into the ocean. After multiple lawsuits, the company and other responsible parties settled for $140 million—a drop in the bucket compared to the destruction it caused.
LOS ANGELES – Today, Congressman Ted Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after the Rancho Palos Verdes City Council allocated $2.8 million in direct relief to residents in the Portuguese Bend land movement area.
LOS ANGELES – Today, Congressman Ted Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after the announcement that the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has been tentatively selected to receive grant funding for their analog and digital chip design program. The anticipated funding will establish a Center for Education of Microchip Designers (CEMiD) to support undergraduate and graduate engineering students at universities across the country.
LOS ANGELES — Congressman Ted Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the below statement following California Governor Gavin Newsom’s declaration of a State of Emergency in the City of Rancho Palos Verdes amid ongoing land movement.
LOS ANGELES – Yesterday, Congressman Ted Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) joined members of the El Segundo City Council to celebrate over $320,000 he secured for El Segundo’s Emergency Operations Center Project. The project will improve emergency and disaster preparedness in El Segundo by upgrading technology and equipment in the City’s Emergency Operations Center.
LOS ANGELES – Yesterday, Congressman Ted Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) presented a $1 million check to the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Los Angeles Harbor (BGCLAH) to expand youth services in Los Angeles County. The funding will help build upon the success of the Harbor City Boys and Girls Clubs’ Pathways to Success project, which provides college and career support to young individuals in Congressman Lieu’s district.
LOS ANGELES – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement in observance of Labor Day.