For years, Rebecca Quintana had been a highly visible activist in the fight for safe drinking water, speaking regularly with reporters, rallying residents and helping to spark an unprecedented United Nations inspection in northern Tulare County…
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The Fresno city council on Thursday approved a plan that could be the first step in clearing a harmful chemical out of the city’s drinking water…
The California Air Resources Board Executive Officer Richard Corey announced today the appointment of Veronica Eady as CARB’s inaugural Assistant Executive Officer for Environmental Justice…
Just as we lead the nation on climate action and renewable energy, we must lead on water…
Everyone has a right to safe, clean, affordable drinking water…
Throughout California’s severe drought, small communities suffered the most…
Sources at the EPA leaked to several media outlets yesterday (January 23) that the administration has ordered the agency to freeze its contracts and grant programs nationwide…
The November election has shaken the ground that we in the California environmental and environmental justice movements have spent decades working to make solid beneath us…
The State Water Resources Control Board has authorized giving $1.21 million to Tulare County to help build a new water system in Monson, the tiny town where wells went dry during the California drought and the water has high levels of nitrates…
Assemblymember Cervantes Introduces Bill to Restructure California Transportation Commission – AB179
AB 179 would alter the required qualifications of six voting members of the Commission…