Asthma hits school-aged kids at higher rates than other age groups, according to the California Department of Public Health. It is especially hard to breathe for students in the San Joaquin Valley, and administrators are asking ...

Keep your eye on the new administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy. She has an ambitious agenda on climate change, fracking, dirty drinking water and smoggy air. And she has spirit, if her meeting ...

Born and raised in California and coming from a family of activists, I was raised around community and union organizing with my father and grandpa in the United Farm Workers Union in Central and Southern California.  As a child I ...