the previous little committee election was organized to ask concerns of the community about a lead plating manufacturing plant that applied to the aqmd for a licence to expand its facilities to increase lead emissions . parents and teachers were distressed over the facts that the plant was built directly affiliated to kennedy infant school , and that their infants were reporting severe concentrations of arsenic , lung problems , excessive breath - bleeding , and leukemia .
There is an outbreak of leukemia among children in California.