A leading member of the California Senate is urging Dodgers owner Mark Walter to end the team’s sponsorship deals with oil and gas companies, telling him that “continuing to associate these corporations with our beloved boys in blue is not in our community or the planet’s best interest.”
In a letter Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Lena Gonzalez (D-Long Beach) wrote that Angelenos “breathe some of the most polluted air in the country, with demonstrated links to negative health outcomes.”
The recent L.A. County wildfires, she said, have called attention to the fact that “fossil fuel pollution is responsible for not only the climate crisis, but also the persistently harmful air quality in the region.