A new water treatment plant in Fresno will soon be filtering water from the Kings River, and delivering it to homes across the city. The facility is near Fowler and Floradora Avenues. Historically, the city pulled it’s water from the ground. Now they’re switching to surface water…
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Californians have an intense concern about the potential for drinking water contamination and strongly support the bipartisan efforts by state and local governments to address it, according to a poll released today by FM3 Research for the broad coalition of more than 110 public health, agricultural, and environmental justice groups behind Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to create a Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund in this year’s budget….
The American Lung Association’s California chapter Wednesday released a report card showing the worst places in the state for air pollution, and San Joaquin County was rated among the most impacted in the nation in terms of smog and particle pollution…
Californians have an intense concern about the potential for drinking water contamination and strongly support the bipartisan efforts by state and local governments to address it, according to a poll released today by FM3 Research for the broad coalition of more than 110 public health, agricultural, and environmental justice groups behind Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to create a Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund in this year’s budget…
A Survey of Efforts to Achieve Universal Access to Water and Sanitation in California, by the ACLU of Northern California and the Pacific Institute, provides a comprehensive overview of efforts of state agencies and non-governmental stakeholders to advance implementation of the human right to water in California. It identifies challenges to universal access and explores potential solutions, including improving data collection on onsite wastewater treatment systems, such as septic, and making the right to sanitation explicit…
Bakersfield has ranked worst, second worst and third worst in the nation for three categories of air quality, shining a light on the community’s ongoing potential for health risks associated with breathing poor air, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Lung Association in California…
California has the most polluted cities in the United States, a report issued on Wednesday said, as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to force the state to weaken its vehicle emissions standards. The study published by the American Lung Association — which covers the period from 2014 to 2016, the year before Trump took office — said Los Angeles remained the city with the worst ozone pollution, and ranked fourth in terms of year-round particle contamination…
The San Joaquin Valley has made some strides in cleaning the air but continues to rank among the most polluted areas for ozone and soot in California, according to a 2018 American Lung Association report on air quality. Eight counties — from Stanislaus to Kern — got flunking grades for both ozone and particle pollution in the association’s State of the Air 2018 report card released Wednesday…
AB 617’s stated goal is to improve air quality in environmental justice communities through local, community-specific strategies focused on the individual needs and issues particular to each community. The development and implementation of this “community focused” strategy is largely the responsibility of California’s local air quality management districts (AQMDs) because AB 617 places new, explicit responsibilities on AQMDs so that they take the lead in improving the air quality in their environmental justice communities…
Through a newly established Environmental Justice Bureau, Becerra is using the authority and resources of his office to assist Californians whose plight rarely makes headlines. His focus is a humbling reminder about what ultimately should drive environmentalism: the right of people – regardless of their political views, income, or ethnic and racial heritage — to live in places that won’t sicken them and their children…