Los Angeles school named after Al Gore

[WestVirginiaRebel]

L.A. Times:

Al Gore has had some tough breaks — like losing the presidency after getting more votes than the other guy — but the noted environmentalist achieved a singular honor last week, becoming the first vice president to have a Los Angeles school named after him.

And, fittingly, the school will be devoted to environmental themes.

But as in the 2000 election, there's a catch. Critics say the campus' location poses a long-term health risk to students and staff.

School district officials insist that the Arlington Heights property is clean and safe. And they've pledged to check vapor monitors and groundwater wells to make sure.

The $75.5-million Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Sciences will open Sept. 13 for about 675 students. As he was with Bill Clinton (who has an L.A. middle school named after him), Gore is second on the ticket to Rachel Carson, the late author credited with helping launch the modern environmental movement.

"Renaming this terribly contaminated school after famous environmental advocates is an affront to the great work that these individuals have done to protect the public's health from harm," an environmental coalition wrote in a letter to the Los Angeles Unified School District. Making sure the school is safe "would be an even better way to honor their contribution to society."

Construction crews were working at the campus up to the Labor Day weekend, replacing toxic soil with clean fill. All told, workers removed dirt from two 3,800-square-foot plots to a depth of 45 feet, space enough to hold a four-story building. The soil had contained more than a dozen underground storage tanks serving light industrial businesses.

Additional contamination may have come from the underground tanks of an adjacent gas station. A barrier will stretch 45 feet down from ground level to limit future possible fuel leakage.
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Al Gore gets a school named after him; children and minorities hardest hit...

[SrWoodchuck]

WVR! Thanks for the post.

 

Will their sports teams be called the "Frosty Sex Poodles" or the "Fightin' Man-Bear-Pigs?"

 

"Green-Weenies?"

 

"Eco-Progs?"

 

"Enviro-Whizzers?"

[AceRimmer]

I think I'm going to throw up...

[Argyle58]

I think I'm going to throw up...

 

Sounds like you might have been drinking the water at the Algore school.

[Guest AnneV]

I think I'm going to throw up...

I just did...and worse still, my coffee went with it!!!!

[Pepper]

Gore is second on the ticket to Rachel Carson, the late author credited with helping launch the modern environmental movement.

 

 

Good old Rachel Carson - supposedly saved the birds but killed tens of millions who suffered from malaria. She's still killing over a million people annually.

 

(Now that's a record even Al Gore can be all proud of. Reducing the impact of their carbon foot prints.)^sarcasm

 

 

Discovered by accident, DDT became one of the greatest public health tools of the 20th century.

[Valin]

Al Gore’s Toxic School: Not the Definition of Irony

Greg Gutfeld

 

So you may have heard that school officials have named an L.A. school after two greenies: Al Gore, and Rachel Carson, the dead author known for birthing the modern environmental movement.

 

The public school costs nearly 80 million bucks, and should open in days, for about 600 students. But there’s a prob: it’s located on a pile of toxic goo. Yep, according to activists, the soil there contained more than “a dozen underground storage tanks serving light industrial businesses,” and even more ooze may have come from tanks of a nearby gas station.

 

 

(Snip)

 

[AceRimmer]

Al Gore’s Toxic School: Not the Definition of Irony

Greg Gutfeld

 

So you may have heard that school officials have named an L.A. school after two greenies: Al Gore, and Rachel Carson, the dead author known for birthing the modern environmental movement.

 

The public school costs nearly 80 million bucks, and should open in days, for about 600 students. But there’s a prob: it’s located on a pile of toxic goo. Yep, according to activists, the soil there contained more than “a dozen underground storage tanks serving light industrial businesses,” and even more ooze may have come from tanks of a nearby gas station.

 

 

(Snip)

 

 

This is the ultimate in great irony and humor.