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    Which Way, L.A.?

    Cleaner Gas & Water Pollution

    Clean burning gasoline is supposed to help clean up the air in California, but what has it done to the water? Water wells are being closed down because of contamination. There's hot debate over what may be the unintended consequences of making it easier to breathe.

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    By Warren Olney • Apr 22, 1997 • 1 min read

    Dr. Joan Denton, Ph. D.: Manager, Stationary source division, California Air Resources Board. Senator Richard Mountjoy: Republican State Senator from the 29th district in the San Gabriel Valley. Jeff Wilson: Manager of external affairs, Western States Petroleum Association. Craig Perkins: Director of Environmental and Public Works, City of Santa Monica. Dr. Nachman Brachbar, MD: Medical doctor, toxicologist at USC school of Medicine. Dr. Jonathan Borak, MD: Associate Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine, Yale University. Principle author of TEMIS reviews of human health exposures to toxic chemicals. Jim Newton: Los Angeles Times reporter. Dale Curtis: Publisher, Greenwire, a non partisan, environmental news daily.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Frances Anderton

      architecture critic and author

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