The San Joaquin Valley struggles with environmental pollution. Hundreds of thousands of residents are served with water that’s unsafe to drink, and all of us live under seasonal clouds ozone and particle pollution in the air. Water and air problems are regulated separately, but one contaminant bridges both domains. This story examines why nitrogen is such a persistent problem…
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Groups with the Brown’s Last Chance campaign will rally outside the National Press Building tomorrow to demand that Gov. Jerry Brown freeze new fossil fuel extraction in California and devise a plan to phase it out entirely. The rally will precede Gov. Brown’s scheduled appearance at the National Press Club…
The California Community Environmental Health Screening Tool (CalEnviroScreen) advances research and policy pertaining to environmental health vulnerability. However, CalEnviroScreen departs from its historical foundations and comparable screening tools by no longer considering racial status as an indicator of environmental health vulnerability and predictor of cumulative pollution burden. This study used conceptual frameworks and analytical techniques from environmental health and inequality literature to address the limitations of CalEnviroScreen, especially its inattention to race-based environmental health vulnerabilities…
The second annual Health and Social Justice Hackathon took place at Bakersfield College on April 12-14 and organizers of the event were BC Professors Edward Rangel, computer science, and Sarah Baron, Public Health Science. The three-day long competition is mainly for BC students to come together as a group and build technology wise tools that can be used by the community…
The second annual Health and Social Justice Hackathon took place at Bakersfield College on April 12-14 and organizers of the event were BC Professors Edward Rangel, computer science, and Sarah Baron, Public Health Science. The three-day long competition is mainly for BC students to come together as a group and build technology wise tools that can be used by the community…
Residents of several San Joaquin Valley communities shared their concerns over issues from water quality to health care with two candidates for California governor on Friday. Seated inside a meeting room at Orosi High School, the community members spoke, at times passionately, about the daily struggles they face living without clean running water. They said they also are challenged by air pollution, a lack of access to health care and a shortage of affordable housing…
In 2012, Governor Jerry Brown signed the Human Right to Water into law making California the first state to recognize that access to safe, clean, and affordable drinking water is a human right. Yet six years later, more than one million residents are exposed to unsafe drinking water each year and over 530,000 Californians pay a bill for water that does not meet state and federal drinking water standards each month…
Yet six years later, more than one million residents are exposed to unsafe drinking water each year and over 530,000 Californians pay a bill for water that does not meet state and federal drinking water standards each month. A disproportionate number of those residents live in the southern San Joaquin Valley, where 109 local water boards oversee the water quality and quantity delivered to homes and farms…
More than 750 public interest groups from California and around the world kicked off a campaign today urging Governor Jerry Brown to stop the build-out of dirty fossil fuel infrastructure, keep oil and gas in the ground and take immediate action to protect those most vulnerable to climate change…
León directs the San Joaquin Valley Latino Environmental Advancement Project, which is working to formalize the Raiteros service and make it more environmentally friendly. The group has gotten grants to help buy two hybrid plug-in vehicles and several charging stations for the Raiteros to use…