Sharon McNary
Infrastructure Reporter (she/her)
I cover infrastructure, which I define as all the different things we build together to make life better. So we’re talking the power grid, our systems for managing rainfall, sewage and drinking water, air quality, roads, ports and more. Part of that is reporting on how well and equitably they serve my fellow Angelenos.
I’ve worked my entire career in SoCal journalism, in TV, wire service, newspapers, radio and online, and I welcome your questions about how L.A. works.
I’m a native Angeleno, a military veteran, a former Peace Corps Volunteer and an endurance athlete. My favorite places to be are on the starting line of the L.A. Marathon and riding my bike up Glendora Mountain Road. I also swim, knit, cook, sew, and weave.
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Long Beach Airport managers propose steep increases in the fines airlines pay when their jets bust the city's 10 p.m. airplane noise curfew. -
For years, the railroads failed to properly report noncompliant trucks to state air regulators. They will pay a combined $1.24 million in fines.
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Martine Sesma, an ultrarunner with a short history in the sport, dropped out of last year's race but she came back in hopes of finishing this year's Angeles Crest 100
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Although the Aliso Canyon storage field has resumed limited operations, ongoing litigation and regulatory costs dog the company.
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Water coming into LA city faucets from the Eastern Sierra is plentiful, but for some water users who depend on groundwater, effects of the drought linger.
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The county quotes a onetime overseer of the Aliso Canyon gas storage field who warned SoCal Gas the wells were vulnerable to being sheared off in an earthquake.
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The gas field has been barred from new injections of gas since the a gas well ruptured in October 2015.
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In a lawsuit, SoCal Gas Co. asks a federal judge to stop Los Angeles County and the state's workplace safety agency Cal/OSHA from enforcing new rules.
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The transformer caught fire possibly because of Saturday's high heat. It was more than 40 years old and due for replacement soon.
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The Erskine Fire burned at least 285 homes, most in the mobile-home community of South Lake, near Lake Isabella. Displaced residents camped out for months.
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