Polluting industries took over this California city. Now, residents are taking it back

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By Aura BogadoNov 5, 2015, 5:56 pm107 ptsTrending
The city of Commerce, a small municipality of 13,000 just a short distance from downtown Los Angeles, has long been the recipient of some of the region’s worst pollution. Commerce is the unlucky inheritor of decades of poor land planning, which has saddled its residents with health-threatening conditions and…

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