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Capital & Main
Capital & Main
Kani’ya Davis

Pesticide Pollution Persists as Officials Develop Stricter Regulations

Ag-Fume Services, located at Three Rivers Trucking in Long Beach, is one of 13 methyl bromide fumigation facilities operating in Los Angeles County. Photo by Jeremy Lindenfeld for Capital & Main.

Data reporting by Ben Poston.

On most evenings, Maricela Morales runs with her 18-year-old son in West Long Beach, a neighborhood that is less than a half-mile from two fumigation facilities that regularly spew a toxic pesticide called methyl bromide into the air.

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