The report, titled “Paying to Pollute: The Environmental Injustice of Pollution Trading,” was released yesterday (November 13) by environmental advocacy organizations Food & Water Watch and Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice. It examines what happens when water and air polluters build facilities in lower-income communities of color, then opt to pay their way out of reducing emissions…
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How to explain the climate-change world’s curious embrace of a man with so apocalyptic a message? On a nearly two-week swing through Europe, starting at the Vatican and ending this week at the United Nations climate change conference in Bonn, Brown offered a bleak appraisal of the global future: We are on a trajectory toward hell. It’s a headlong rush to a very unpleasant outcome. Mankind is on the chopping block…
More than 11,000 public schools in California haven’t been tested for lead or other contaminants at school campuses, according to data provided by the State Water Resources Control Board…
Two days after protesters from indigenous and front line communities challenged Governor Jerry Brown to leave oil and gas “in the ground” as he spoke during his European “climate tour,” non-profit organizations released two new studies criticizing the racial and economic injustice behind and the ineffectiveness of cap-and-trade programs…
A report issued last week by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) said the bulk of California’s heavy crude oil is as climate-damaging as Western Canada’s oilsands, with eight of the 10 largest state oilfields producing heavy crude. CBD also called for a state ban on oilfield expansions and unconventional drilling…
Water tests at school drinking fountains across Northern California found dangerous levels of lead and other metals, prompting school officials to shut down the fountains. However, thousands of schools across California have not participated in a state-funded program to test their drinking water, according to an investigation by KCRA 3…
New analysis published today details the disproportionate burdens of air and water contamination and serious human health effects placed on low-income communities of color by market-based pollution trading schemes. The report, from the advocacy organizations Food & Water Watch and Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, shows that under many of these plans – like California’s notorious “cap-and-trade” program – localized pollution and public health impacts actually increase in lower-income minority communities…
Up and down the Central Valley, Californians from many different walks of life derive great benefit from access to national parks, monuments and cultural sites. It is in these shared spaces that so many members of the Latino community see ourselves represented. In the soaring peaks of the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument is our future potential…
New data show that California’s greenhouse gas emissions covered by the state’s cap-and-trade system declined sharply in 2016, falling 16.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MMtCO2e) below 2015 levels—a drop of nearly 5%…
Earlier this month by 13 federal agencies in an exhaustive National Climate Assessment; on Wednesday in a sobering update from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and last month the World Meteorological Organization report that found the combination of El Niño warming and man-made emissions had raised concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to a level not seen in 3 million years…