Marie Targonski-O’Brien
Marie Targonski-O’Brien is a writer, reporter and digital producer based in Los Angeles. She graduated from USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism with a M.S. in Journalism in 2017 and is a former Associate Producer for KCET’s award-winnng news magazine show, SoCal Connected.
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After a fire broke out at a Boyle Heights trash facility in September of 2016, Clean Up America, owner, Deontay Potter, is facing 50 criminal charges. Throughout the state, there are 12 waste facilities, including Clean Up America, that have pending viola
As the city of L.A. prepares to roll out the Urban Agriculture Incentive Zone program, the county's struggle to find participants has prevented the program from taking off.
After a fire at Clean Up America’s facility broke out in September of 2016, igniting a 25-foot-high pile of trash that burned for over six weeks, the city attorney’s office filed a lawsuit against the construction debris company.