As many as 1 million Californians, mostly in the farming communities of the Central Valley, have dangerous levels of an unregulated chemical linked to cancer in their drinking water, according to California’s State Water Board…
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Nearly a Million Californians Exposed To Pesticide Chemical Linked To Cancer in Their Drinking Water
Reliable access to clean drinking water is a problem for one in five San Joaquin Valley residents, according to a Fresno State survey released this month…
Wilmington is a blue-collar neighborhood adjoining the nation’s busiest seaport and includes four refineries. It is dotted with oil wells and storage tanks, many right next to houses…
Marginalized communities — low-income communities and communities of color — continue to carry a heavier burden when it comes to receiving equal access to resources, including those that pertain to health and environmental equality…
In late April, we launched a series called “Contaminated” where our team explores communities in the region affected by water unsafe to drink. In our first story, we visited a Fresno County community that can’t afford to maintain the arsenic treatment plant the federal government funded 10 years ago…
The Institute for Leadership and Public Policy at Fresno State conducted a public opinion survey in March on issues and concerns in the San Joaquin Valley, finding that 21 percent of adults have little access to clean water…
Last week, Senator Bob Wieckowski (D-Fremont) and Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) gave a press conference about a new bill, SB 775, aimed at changing California’s cap-and-trade scheme…
A new Senate Bill (SB775) proposed by Senator Bob Wieckowski (D-Fremont) and Senator Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles), the President pro Tempore of the California State Senate (and a statewide leader on climate and environmental justice issues), could return 90% of auction revenues to households with climate dividends…
More than 50 farm workers were exposed to a pesticide drift Friday morning southwest of Bakersfield…
Now Democrats in Sacramento are debating the future of a program long hated by Republicans: cap and trade, which requires oil refiners, power plants and other climate polluters to pay a fee for the planet-warming greenhouse gases they emit…