San Diego County Supervisor Paloma Aguirre is asking California Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare a state of emergency to address the pollution coming from the Tijuana River, a long-running crisis that’s so bad the pollution has been visible from space.
“The San Diego County Board of Supervisors has declared this an emergency 22 times and sent a letter to our governor asking him to follow suit,” Aguirre said on Instagram. “Governor [Gavin Newsom] it is time. We can’t keep passing the buck to another country even if they’re the source.”
Aguirre pointed to the 52 open states of emergency that Newsom has declared and asked him to declare a state of emergency for San Diego County. By doing so, he would have the power to suspend regulations, making it easier to address the problem more urgently…