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Environmental Impacts From Moss Landing Plant Fire Still Unknown

Environmental Impacts From Moss Landing Plant Fire Still Unknown

KQED's The California Report

February 11, 202510m 17s

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The flames have died down at the Moss Landing battery storage plant in Monterey County, after a massive fire last month. But the environmental impacts may be just beginning. In neighboring Elkhorn Slough, a sanctuary for endangered wildlife, researchers have already found heavy metal concentrations up to a thousand times higher than before the fire.


Reporter: Katherine Monahan, KQED


Starting Tuesday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and US Army Corps of Engineers will begin removing fire debris from private properties that were damaged or destroyed in the January wildfires in Los Angeles. The federal agencies will enter the properties of residents who submitted a Rights of Entry form.


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