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Landmark Theme Building Observation Deck at Los Angeles International Airport to Re-Open This Saturday July 10

LOS ANGELES, July 9, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Observation Deck atop the iconic Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) will once again delight travelers and families with a 360-degree view of the airport as it re-opens to the public on weekends only with limited hours — 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays beginning this Saturday, July 10, 2010. There is no time limit for how long visitors may stay on the deck. Together with the space-age, retro-themed Encounter Restaurant housed inside the building, the re-opening fully restores an LAX experience that had been a major draw to travelers from around the world.
The Theme Building recently finished a three-year, $12.3-million renovation, which made the structure safer and more accessible. 
The Observation Deck was closed due to security reasons following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the East Coast. New security measures will be in place, including inspection of personal belongings before visitors enter the nonstop elevator for a quick ride from the lobby to the Observation Deck.  Prior to its closing, the Observation Deck welcomed nearly 3,000 people monthly.

U. S. Court of Appeals Decision Allows Enforcement of Non-Solicitation of Funds Policy at Los Angeles International Airport

LOS ANGELES, July 7, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Los Angeles Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa and airport officials are pleased with today’s decision by the United States Court of Appeals lifting the preliminary injunction, imposed in 1997, allowing Los Angeles Airport Police to enforce a Los Angeles City ordinance prohibiting solicitation and receipt of funds in the terminals, parking areas, and adjacent sidewalks at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
“This is a huge step forward in ensuring the comfort and safety of the traveling public at LAX,” said Los Angeles World Airports’ Executive Director Gina Marie Lindsey. “From now on the traveling public will not have worry about solicitors asking for money.”
With this decision, Los Angeles Airport Police are able to enforce the ordinance passed by the Los Angeles City Council on April 1, 1997, and upheld by the California Supreme Court on March 25, 2010, to prohibit the International Society for Krishna Consciousness of California, Inc. (ISKON) and other groups from solicitation and receipt of funds in the terminals, parking areas, and adjacent sidewalks at LAX.
Los Angeles Airport Chief of Police George R. Centeno said, “The recent lifting of the court injunction means airport police law enforcement can enforce our City’s laws. This ruling allows us to exercise a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to solicitors asking for immediate donations at LAX.”
Organizations still can distribute literature and speak to willing travelers. They can even seek financial support, as long as they not request the immediate exchange of funds.
Violators face a penalty of up to six months in jail or a fine of $1,000, if convicted.

New Air Service, Flights at LAX Offer Travelers Additional Options for Summer Travel

LOS ANGELES, July 6, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — New air service and additional flights launched within the last two months at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) give travelers more travel options to destinations throughout the world, in time for the summer travel season and beyond.
Alitalia, Allegiant Air, American Eagle, Cathay Pacific, Copa Airlines, Delta Airlines, Horizon Air, JetBlue, Virgin America, and US Airways are offering new service or additional flights throughout the U.S. and overseas due to a slight improvement in the economy. Airport officials forecast 16.9 million passengers to pass through LAX during the summer travel season, an increase of 5.4 percent compared to 2009.
New air service includes:
Alitalia nonstop service to Rome five times a week, the only nonstop flight to Italy from the West Coast;

Allegiant Air nonstop service to Idaho Falls, Idaho, one flight, twice a week; Eugene, Oregon, Thursdays and Sundays; and Tri-Cities, Washington, Thursdays and Sundays;

American Eagle nonstop service to Reno, Nevada, three times daily;

Delta Airlines nonstop daily service to Columbus, Ohio; Hartford, Connecticut; Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina; and San Francisco;

Horizon Air nonstop daily flights to Mammoth Yosemite Airport and Sun Valley;

JetBlue nonstop flights to John F. Kennedy International Airport, four times daily;

Virgin America daily service to Toronto, Canada;

US Airways nonstop service to Los Cabos and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, five and four times a week, respectively; Ottawa and Halifax, Canada, one and three daily flights, respectively.
Airlines offering additional flights on existing routes include:
Cathay Pacific nonstop service to Hong Kong, three times a week;

Copa Airlines daily nonstop service to Panama;

Horizon Air nonstop daily service to Reno, Nevada;
Emirates Airlines is running its “Kids Go Free” program until September 30, where two children under the age of 16 can stay, eat, and play in Dubai for free when travelling with two paying adults. LAX offers one daily flight to Dubai.
Several airlines now offer mobile check-in where passengers can check-in using a mobile phone or web-enabled mobile device. Passengers proceed through security screening and boarding without needing to present a paper boarding pass.
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is the third busiest airport in the U.S. and sixth in the world, offering more than 565 daily flights to 81 destinations in the U.S. and over 1,000 weekly nonstop flights to 65 international destinations on over 75 carriers. LAX is part of a system of three Southern California airports – along with LA/Ontario International and Van Nuys general aviation – that are owned and operated by Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), a department of the City of Los Angeles. For more information, visit www.lawa.org.

LAWA Receives LAX Coastal Area Chamber’s Sustainability Award

LOS ANGELES, June 28, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) received the LAX Coastal Area Chamber of Commerce’s Sustainability Award during the chamber’s recent installation dinner at the Westin Los Angeles International Airport Hotel.
“Our mission has always been to balance the needs of the traveling public and the needs of the surrounding community,” said LAWA Executive Director Gina Marie Lindsey. “This is an exciting honor for LAWA and the fact that it comes from our immediate neighbor gives us great satisfaction that our efforts are making a difference.”
LAWA has a growing Sustainability Program that includes a comprehensive Sustainability Plan and Airport Sustainability Guidelines. For building projects, LAWA utilizes the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards of the U.S. Green Building Council. LEED standards are an internationally recognized green building certification system that incorporates strategies such as water efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to impacts.
LAWA’s sustainability achievements include improving the quality of air through its increased number of alternative-fuel vehicles, reducing traffic congestion in and around LAX, minimizing waste through its airport-wide recycling programs, and proactive measures to conserve water through the use of reclaimed water and efficient irrigation.
LAWA’s recently completed Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT) renovation project achieved LEED Silver Certification and all new terminal facilities are also being designed to achieve LEED certification. The TBIT renovation project demonstrated LAWA’s excellence in promoting sustainable programs and was one of the reasons LAWA was selected for the award. LAWA is just the second organization to receive this honor from the chamber.
“The renovated Tom Bradley International Terminal was completed on-time and under budget, is the only LEED silver certified airport project for an existing building, and was renovated while the terminal was fully operational,” said Thomas Flintoft, chamber chairman. “I applaud Gina Marie Lindsey, her executive staff and the Board of Airport Commissioners for putting our airport on a course to become a world class airport, and for putting in place operational policies that will make LAX a sustainable transportation asset to the community.”

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SAVING SALMON

SAVING SALMON

SAVING SALMON
PAULA DOBBYN

Over the summer, tens of millions of wild salmon return from long voyages in the Pacific Ocean and swim back to their natal rivers, located in places like Southwest Alaska’s pristine Bristol Bay watershed, an area roughly the size of Ohio. Although less well known than their Yukon or Copper River cousins, Bristol Bay King and Sockeye salmon are just as delicious and many wind up on dinner plates in restaurants, fish markets and grocery stores across the country.

With their ruby-colored flesh, scarlet red scales and pale green heads, the torpedo-shaped fish are w orks of art — both for the eye and the palate. Fortunately, unlike many places in the Lower 48, Bristol Bay supports the world’s largest Sockeye salmon run and a healthy and sustainable fishery. It’s become evermore important as salmon stocks dwindle on the West Coast of the United States.

This summer, for the second year in a row, federal fishery managers have banned commercial salmon fishing in California waters while severely cutting back on it off the coast of Oregon. A toxic recipe of urbanization, ocean warming, dams, culverts, fishery mismanagement, and pollution, particularly from agricultural run-off, has resulted in degraded habitat, making it hard for Pacific salmon to survive. Bristol Bay stands alone as one of the last p laces on Earth where wild salmon still thrive.

But while the fish are bountiful, all is not well in Bristol Bay. The salmon fishery and the families it supports face a looming threat from industrialscale hard rock mining. A consortium of mining companies, led by Londonbased Anglo American, wants to open what would be one of the world’s largest open-pit mines in the very place where the salmon spawn. Ironically, an enormous storehouse of gold, copper and molybdenum lies buried under the headwaters of the Nushagak and Kvichak Rivers, the biggest producers of Bristol Bay salmon. In recent years, the mining companies have spent millions of dollars exploring the geochemistry, hydrology, and other aspects of what’s come to be known as the Pebble deposit. Mining executives stated recently that they are just months away from applying for state and federal p ermits to develop the mine.

The prospect of a massive mine in their backyard has stirred concern among the commercial, sport and subsistence fishermen whose livelihoods depend on Bristol Bay salmon. They fear a spill of mine waste or some other industrial accident at Pebble could destroy a wild salmon run that’s worth hundreds of millions of dollars and provides j obs and sustenance to thousands of people.

It’s not just fisherman and environmentalists who worry about the future of Bristol Bay. A number of prominent West Coast chefs, including Alice Waters of Berkley, Calif.’s Chez Panisse restaurant, h ave become outspoken about Bristol Bay.

“Wild salmon is without a doubt one of nature’s perfect foods. Anyone sitting down to their table to enjoy a perfect fillet of Bristol Bay sockeye salmon should pause and feel thankful for the pure A laska rivers that spawned it,” said Waters.

In addition to giving thanks, Paul Johnson thinks consumers should actively help preserve Bristol Bay salmon by voting with their fork. For the San Francisco fish wholesaler and author of “Fish Forever: The Definitive Guide to Understanding, Selecting, and Preparing Healthy, Delicious, and Environmentally Sustainable Seafood,” voting with one’s fork means insisting that restaurants and r etail outlets carry Bristol Bay salmon.

“It’s our moral obligation to protect these fish and that means supporting this sustainable fishery by choosing Bristol Bay salmon,” said Johnson.

“If we allow this Pebble mine to go in, the same thing that happened to us down here in California is going to happen in Alaska. The salmon won’t s urvive.” A group of Seattle chefs has also recently weighed in. The board of Seattle Chefs Collaborative, a non-profit that works with chefs and others to foster a sustainable food supply, recently voted unanimously to support the efforts of Trout Unlimited to protect Bristol Bay’s salmon. Trout Unlimited, a coldwater fisheries protection group, is helping raise awareness about the risks of the P ebble mine project and to protect Bristol Bay.

“We want to empower consumers to know that they can heavily influence what ends up happening to Bristol Bay. Whether it’s eating Bristol Bay wild salmon or writing a letter to Gov. Sarah Palin and letting her know that the Pebble mine should not be developed, everyone can play a part” said Elizabeth Dubovsky, an organizer with Trout Unlimited in Juneau.

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