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" Since UC Riverside’s medical school debuted in 2013 with the dream of expanding healthcare access in the underserved Inland Empire region, the university has relied on partnerships with area hospitals to provide hands-on training.

“They call it locally a hospital without walls,” state Sen. Richard Roth, D-Riverside, said. But that arrangement, Roth said, isn’t going to work much longer.

"Jurupa Valley officials are insisting that a state agency remove a half dozen containers of lead-contaminated soil they say are stored in violation of state law on a parking lot at the Stringfellow acid pits, one of Southern California’s most notorious toxic waste dumps.

..... On Wednesday, June 22, state Sen. Richard Roth, D-Riverside, and Assembly Member Sabrina Cervantes, D-Riverside, sent a letter in support of the city’s request to California Environmental Protection Agency Secretary Jared Blumenfeld. The Department of Toxic Substances Control is a division of Cal EPA.

By Byrhonda Lyons [Published: June 23, 2021] — "State Sen. Richard Roth, a Democrat from Riverside, is pushing legislation that would have the state spend $10 million to expand the program to more locations statewide.  “It has essentially been operating with volunteers,” Roth said. “If we expect to move the needle dramatically — and frankly, we must — we need to do more, and we need to do it now.” Roth’s SB 770 bill would also require the chancellor of the California Community Colleges to report outcomes to the state, something the program hasn’t done previously. It has yet to be incorporated into the Legislature’s whopping $264 billion proposed budget."

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