Agriculture
July, 2021
June, 2021
- East Orosi one step closer to clean water as Tulare County moves to become administrator
- Tulare County’s never-ending drought brings dried up wells and plenty of misery
- Environmental justice report targets farmworkers, pesticides
- Advocates call for early notification from ag commissioners of pesticide spraying
April, 2021
March, 2021
- Heat, Smoke and Covid Are Battering the Workers Who Feed America
- Will Valley air district actually enforce new restrictions on agricultural burning?
- Air board tells San Joaquin Valley growers to phase out ag burns by 2025
- Factory Farms: New EPA Emissions Data Should Guide Biden on Agriculture and Climate
February, 2021
- 'It's a toxic blend': where the kids are warned not to swallow the bath water
- California air board OKs crackdown on agricultural burning in San Joaquin Valley
- Air board tells San Joaquin Valley growers to phase out burns by 2025
- Limit smoke pollution and support a healthy ag future. It’s time to ban field burning
- Burns in San Joaquin Valley vineyards, orchards may finally end. What delayed it?
- Op-ed: Essential farmworkers deserve pesticide protections
- Air District launches $12.5 million program to reduce ag dust
- Environmental justice groups applaud CalEPA’s directive on pesticide notifications
January, 2021
December, 2020
November, 2020
- Air district plans to further limit ag burning
- This Week in Fresnoland: Private well owners can shape state’s water decisions
- Protect Agricultural Workers During COVID-19
- It’s crunch time for dairies to wrap up nitrate and drinking water plans
- Watch: Q&A on private wells and water quality in the central San Joaquin Valley
- California Is Making Progress On Safe Water For All, But Work Remains
- Pesticides from helicopter landed near San Joaquin soccer players, state lawsuit says
- New National Climate Change Guide Focuses On Impact In San Joaquin Valley Communities
October, 2020
- Parents Sue Chlorpyrifos Makers Corteva, Dow Over Child’s Autism
- This Week in Fresnoland: A Drinking Water Guide
- Parents Sue Manufacturer of Neurotoxic Insecticide Chlorpyrifos, Corteva (formerly Dow), for Causing Child’s Disabilities
- San Joaquin Valley family says company’s toxic pesticide caused child’s disabilities
- San Joaquin Valley family says company’s toxic pesticide caused child’s disabilities
- Protect forgotten agricultural workers during COVID-19
- Industrial farms leave water wells ‘high and dry’ despite regulations, Madera residents say
- California Announces THE END for Brain-Harming Pesticide Chlorpyrifos
- EWG Investigation: In California’s Majority-Latino Communities, 5.25 Million Drink Tap Water With Nitrate Above Federal Limit
- In California, Latinos More Likely To Be Drinking Nitrate-Polluted Water
- Nitrate-tainted drinking water plagues California farmworker towns, study shows
September, 2020
- Pregnancy And Pesticides: A Study As Old As Its Subjects Reveals Health Concerns
- Op-Ed: Seeking to make agriculture clean up its own mess - Los Angeles Times
- Consumer Reports Study Rates Foods with Pesticide Residues; Doesn’t Include Worker, Environmental Justice, Biodiversity Impacts
- The US Agriculture System Is a Disaster for Farmworkers and the Planet
- In a Dry State, Farmers Use Oil Wastewater to Irrigate Their Fields, but is it Safe?
- California farmworkers say they didn’t get masks during wildfires
June, 2019
May, 2019
- Safe drinking water can come at a price
- Why California's Water Crisis Is So Difficult to Solve
- They Grow the Nation’s Food, but They Can’t Drink the Water
- Why California's Water Crisis Is So Difficult to Solve
- California defies Trump to ban pesticide linked to childhood brain damage
- Community Voices: Don’t let what happened to my children happen to yours
- California's governor looking to turn around region that suffers from persistent poverty
- Growers fear chlorpyrifos ban will hurt crops
- Newsom administration moves to ban chlorpyrifos pesticide, allocates $5.7 million for alternatives
- California defies Trump to ban pesticide linked to childhood brain damage
- Cal-EPA will begin the cancellation process of pesticide but falls short of protecting communities
- Newsom says he has a fresh approach to California’s longtime water woes
April, 2019
March, 2019
- How California is Defying Trump’s Environmental Rollbacks
- 3-year old Break for Medium-Sized CAFOs Gets Challenged in D.C. court
- Clearing the Air: Three Victories for the People
- Nunes, Costa, Cox Collide on Climate Change, yet they Represent the Same Fresno County Region
- Farmworker Supporters Believe Pesticide Violations Happening in Fresno, Tulare Counties
- Latino Life: Valley Residents Rally For Better Treatment
- Is the American Dream Drying Up in California’s Central Valley?
- Is the American Dream Drying Up in California’s Central Valley?
February, 2019
- One Nonprofit is Noticing a Spike in Asthma Diagnosis in Children
- Walters: San Joaquin Valley — California’s Poor Stepchild?
- What's Gavin Newsom's Plan for Sustainable Water in California? We Still Have Little Idea
- Air Pollution Greatly Impacts the Poor, Study Finds
- Water and the Future of the San Joaquin Valley
- Gov Newsom Names New Chair and New Member to Cali State Water Resources Control Board
- This Just In … Governor Newsom Designates Joaquin Esquivel as Chair of the State Water Board; Appoints Laurel Firestone from the Community Water Center to the Board
- Felicia Marcus Removed from State Water Board. ‘It was Time for a Change.’
- California Cases of Potentially Deadly “Valley Fever” are Starting to Soar
January, 2019
December, 2018
- Kern county leads the state with use of toxic pesticide, but plans to regulate it
- Dismissing science has put these California workers at risk
- California Supreme Court demands a do-over on Friant Ranch environmental analysis
- Fresno Unified will consider a ban on Roundup, citing cancer risks to staff and students
- Coalition challenges USDA loan exemption
- Groups File Suit to Require Environmental Review for Public Loans to Animal Operations
- Lawsuit challenges USDA’s medium CAFO exemptions
- Despite decades of cleanup, respiratory disease deaths plague California county
- In California’s Fertile Valley, Industry and Agriculture Hang Heavy in the Air
November, 2018
September, 2018
August, 2018
- Tax on California water revived to clean up drinking water – but it’s voluntary
- Federal judicial panel bans the pesticide chlorpyrifos
- California Groundwater Law Means Big Changes Above Ground, Too
- Healthy Soil is Ground Zero for Environmental Justice in Farm Communities
- Next Article NIEHS road trip opens eyes to San Joaquin health challenges
June, 2018
- Dry wells, sinking land and fears of a global food crisis
- CARB awards $20M in Cap-and-Trade funding to zero-emission transportation technology demos, H2 ferry, BEV locomotive
- Overpumping Groundwater Linked To Arsenic Threat
- Toxic Trap: Groundwater Overpumping Boosts Arsenic in California Aquifer
- Satellite Data Can Predict Arsenic Contamination In Irrigation and Drinking Water: Study
- More Californians getting sick from pesticides, according to latest state report
- State and Health Groups Sue EPA to Protect Farmworker Health
May, 2018
- Farmworkers sue EPA over exposure to dangerous pesticides
- Farmworkers sue EPA over exposure to dangerous pesticides
- Another Voice: All Californians should have safe drinking water
- OPINION: California leads the country in pesticide spray bans, now how about chlorpyrifos?
- Rex Bohn: All of us should pitch in for clean water
- Department of Pesticide Regulation receives poor grades on report
- ROBERT PRICE: 'Toxic cocktail' no more: Water Fund a step closer to reality
- California pesticide use high, covers vast acreage
- Community Voices: Address state’s drinking water crisis while protecting farming
- Despite Tight Restrictions, Open Ag Burning Increases In The Valley
- Despite Tight Restrictions, Open Ag Burning Increases In The Valley
April, 2018
February, 2018
- Postcard From Sacramento: Residents Rally For A Healthy Valley
- 'Everybody wants things to change': San Joaquin Valley residents head to Sacramento, demanding lawmakers invest in their communities
- Researchers discover fertilizer is linked to air pollution
- UC Davis researchers find overuse of fertilizer on farms a key source of air pollution
- Nitrogen Fertilizer Found To Be A Significant Source of Air Pollution
- Study Points to Soil Fertilizer as the Likely Culprit of Central Valley Smog
January, 2018
December, 2017
November, 2017
September, 2017
May, 2017
- Pesticide that Trump's EPA refused to ban blamed for sickening farm workers
- 'Like a slow death': families fear pesticide poisoning after Trump reverses ban
- Smoggy Central Valley Could Lose in Fight on US Pollution Standards
- Days After Calif. Farmworkers Sickened by Pesticide Drift, EPA Delays Safety Rule
- Trump's EPA Greenlights a Nasty Chemical. A Month Later, It Poisons a Bunch of Farmworkers.
- Farmworkers encounter pesticide dangers
- Pesticide drift halts harvest southwest of Bakersfield
- Chlorpyrifos Damaged my son's Brain for Life