WRIGHTWOOD CALIF SEPTEMBER 11, 2024 - San Bernardino County firefighters work to save a home from the Bridge fire burning in Wrightwood on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. The Bridge fire has carried more that 40,000 acres and is at 0% containment. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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WRIGHTWOOD CALIF SEPTEMBER 11, 2024 - San Bernardino County firefighters work to contain a spot fire from the Bridge fire burning in Wrightwood on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. The Bridge fire has carried more that 40,000 acres and is at 0% containment. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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Malibu, CA - September 11: A beachfront home at 31430 Broad Beach Rd., center, has an empty lot next door, with an excavator parked on it on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024 in Malibu, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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LOS ANGELES, CA-SEPTEMBER 27, 2023:An active drilling oil field on Rockwood St. is located near Alliance Ted K. Tajima High School in Los Angeles. Assembly member Wendy Carillo is urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign a bill the would require oil and gas companies to put more money aside to ensure wells are plugged near the end of their productive life. The bill, AB1167, already passed the senate and assembly, but there is concern that Newsom will veto it because his Department of Finance has opposed the bill, arguing the measure's added financial obligations could create more orphaned oil wells. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

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FILE - A bag of 4-fluoro isobutyryl fentanyl which was seized in a drug raid is displayed at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Testing and Research Laboratory in Sterling, Va., on Aug. 9, 2016. China on Friday, July 7, 2023, insisted it is up to the U.S. to “create necessary conditions” for anti-drugs cooperation, following complaints from Washington that Beijing has ignored its calls for a crackdown on precursor chemicals for the highly addictive painkiller fentanyl. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

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A man walks at a second hand clothes dump site at the Kantamanto Market in Accra, Ghana, on November 15, 2023. Kantamanto market is vast, spanning over 20 acres in the heart of Accra's business district, its stalls dominated by used clothing and shoes from the West and China. Its traders import a staggering 15 million garments a week, according to the OR Foundation environmental group. But roughly 40 percent of each bale ends up as waste, they say, dumped in landfills and often washed into the ocean, causing a public health crisis and harming the environment. Ghana became the world's largest importer of used clothing in 2021, according to the Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC) data site, with garments worth $214 million shipped mostly from China, the United Kingdom and Canada. (Photo by Nipah Dennis / AFP) (Photo by NIPAH DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)

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Los Angeles, CA - August 28: Stop motion shoot in the office for fast fashion at Los Angeles Times building on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times)

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TOPSHOT - This image grab taken from AFPTV footage shows two environmental activists from the collective dubbed "Riposte Alimentaire" (Food Retaliation) hurling soup at Leonardo Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" (La Joconde) painting, at the Louvre museum in Paris, on January 28, 2024. Two protesters on January 28, 2024 hurled soup at the bullet-proof glass protecting Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" in Paris, demanding the right to "healthy and sustainable food", an AFP journalist said. It is the latest attack on the masterpiece in the French capital's Louvre museum, after someone threw a custard pie at it in May 2022, but it's thick glass casing ensured it came to no harm. (Photo by David CANTINIAUX / AFPTV / AFP) (Photo by DAVID CANTINIAUX/AFPTV/AFP via Getty Images)

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Los Angeles, CA - April 29: Avroh, Maya and Maryam, left to right, are three young plaintiffs who have sued the EPA, and poses for a portrait near the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California where a hearing for the lawsuit took place on Monday, April 29, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)

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SOUTH PASADENA-CA-JULY 16, 2024: Fabienne Hadorn, co-founder of Arroyo Nature School, an outdoor-based program for preschool-aged kids, left, reads to the children in South Pasadena on July 16, 2024. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

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