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# Cleaning up LA with liberty By Daily Press staff
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/cleaning-up-la-with-liberty-by-daily-press-staff/
- Published: 2005-04-04T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T06:32:33.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Environment, Santa Monica, #archive-import

Everyone deserves to live non-toxically, environmentalists say. The Liberty Hill Foundation, based in Santa Monica, recently awarded $269,000 to groups doing grassroots environmental health and justice work in Los Angeles.

The Liberty Hill Environmental Justice Fund is dedicated to improving public health in low-income communities that suffer disproportionately from environmental pollution. From 1970 to 1990, the risk of living next to a toxic waste facility increased three-fold for people of color in Los Angeles, according to the foundation.

The money awarded went to organizations committed to such tasks as promoting clean fuel mass transit, training tenant leaders to identify and cleanup lead poisoning in apartment buildings, closing a hazardous chrome plating facility located next to an elementary school in South Los Angeles, and more.

Only 3 percent of charitable funds go to environmental organizations, and only one-tenth of that goes to environmental justice work. Liberty Hill Foundation has given away more than $2.2 million to environmental justice community organizations in Los Angeles County since 1996.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 4, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/040405.pdf?ref=smdp.com)