"Power Grab Topples Another Defender Of California's Environment"

"It was like a sequel to a bad movie.

One month after I watched the California Coastal Commission whack the executive whose career was devoted to preserving and assuring equal access to the state's greatest treasure, I went to Diamond Bar on Friday to watch another massacre.

This time the target was a man with more than three decades of experience fighting smog and improving public health in a region with some of the dirtiest air in the nation.

The South Coast Air Quality Management District ignored pleas from environmentalists and public health experts and told Barry Wallerstein to get lost."

Steve Lopez reports for the Los Angeles Times March 4, 2016.