For residents in Kettleman City, a recent meeting with the State Water Resources Control Board and other local agencies can be considered the first step in the right direction to bring clean water to the disadvantage and vulnerable community of color in southwest Kings County which has been fighting for environmental justice for so many years…
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With many communities across the country in urgent need of solutions to unemployment, the question of whether to accept environmental risks for the possibility of increased employment is a crucial question…
Maricela Mares-Alatorre has lived in Kettleman City since she was a child, and she has spent much of her life fighting for environmental justice…
As California’s five-year drought continues, the community of East Porterville has become an epicenter for the state’s water shortage…
Officials from the State Water Resources Control Board tried to reassure residents of the Central Valley town of Kettleman City this week that clean water is on the way…
While you’re thinking about how you’ll cool off, consider this: four times more Californians than the entire population of Flint, Michigan do not get clean, safe water from the tap in their homes…
California’s cap-and-trade program is a key strategy for achieving reductions in greenhouse gas emissions under AB32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act…
Residents in environmental justice communities don’t just experience pollution from one source…
The lead-up to the end of the California legislative session at midnight last night included a standard amount of grandstanding, tearful farewells, laughter, and exhaustion…