In a shocking development, and while people are focused on the COVID-19 crisis, the gas industry has been caught doing an end-run around the will of the public, which is rising up against the horrific plan to bulldoze the Ballona Wetlands, LA’s last coastal wetlands in Playa del Rey whose 640 acres is teeming with 1,700 species of animals and plants, some endangered. During public meetings, community leaders have denounced the plan to bulldoze the wetlands, which is being pushed by allies of the fossil fuel industry. The agenda of this phony “restoration” plan is to allow the gas industry to excavate the wetlands and refurbish crumbling gas infrastructure which lies underneath and throughout this ecological reserve, and extend the life of this facility which contributes to climate change.