A new coalition, Stand Together Against Neighborhood Drilling (STAND-LA), steps up in 2015 to push back against under-regulated oil drilling in densely populated areas of L.A.
Ashley Hernandez, youth organizer with Communities for a Better Environment, near a drilling site in her neighborhood of Wilmington.
Children in South L.A. are dressed as canaries in a coal mine to protest being exposed to toxic emissions.
Photos by Warren Hill.