AllenCo Energy is trying to negotiate a settlement with the Los Angeles city attorney's office as part of an effort to resume operations of an urban oil field that prompted hundreds of complaints of nosebleeds and respiratory ailments due to its emissions, officials confirmed Wednesday.
AllenCo voluntarily halted oil production at the site, in a mostly low-income South Los Angeles neighborhood about half a mile north of USC, two years ago at the request of U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), and after health and environmental safety authorities were sickened during a tour of the property.
Since then formal complaints of respiratory ailments and nosebleeds in the University Park neighborhood have all but disappeared.