LA is opening up a $75.5 million environmental-themed school that bears the name of Al Gore (and Rachel Carson).
Here’s the funny part: There is serious concern that the school is on a contaminated site.
Now this bit of cruel irony: The Los Angeles-area Carson-Gore Academy
of Environmental Sciences, named after Gore and pioneering
environmentalist Rachel Carson , was built atop an environmentally contaminated piece of real estate,
the Los Angeles Times reports. Some are now raising concerns that the
$75.5 million school — which sits across the street from an oil well
— may pose long-term health risks to its students, faculty and staff,
as the groundwater beneath it is contaminated by chemicals.
