Los Angeles Daily News | “What's in dirt? UCLA scientists testing soil in fire zones for lead, offer inexpensive fixes”
The Los Angeles Daily News interviewed Dr. Kirsten Schwarz, associate professor in UCLA Fielding's Department of Environmental Health Sciences.
The Los Angeles Daily News interviewed Dr. Kirsten Schwarz, associate professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Department of Environmental Health Sciences, about soil contamination in southern California.
"We in Los Angeles especially don’t think about the benefits we get from soils in cities. It is often overlooked,” said Kirsten Schwarz, a UCLA professor in urban planning and environmental health sciences.
“People having access to clean soil is important. A lot of urban areas are often compromised,” she said. “We are interested in healthy soil, so it is not a harm to people. A lot of focus has been on heavy metal contamination, lead in particular.”
It also ran in the Pasadena Star-News, Whittier Daily News, Torrance Daily Breeze, and MSN.
