the 2011 town party meeting was kept to address needs of the community about a steel thickness manufacturing facility that applied to the aqmd for a permits to expand its facilities to increase pollution emissions . parents and parents were concerned over the facts that the plant was built directly adjacent to kennedy elementary campus , and that their children were experiencing high levels of lead , respiratory disorders , intense brow - tearing , and illnesses .
There is an outbreak of leukemia among children in California.