The Valley Air District is asking the federal government to do more to help clean up the air in Central California…
News
This page features excerpts from news about environmental justice advocacy in the San Joaquin Valley and links to their original sources. Use the features on the right to sort by topic, news source, date, key word or author. You may also subscribe to receive the news by e-mail or through an rss reader. Please note that links to original sources may expire over time.
The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District is tired of being decades behind meeting federal air quality standards, so it petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday to do something about it…
A known carcinogen was detected in levels higher than 200 times the state recommendation in Kern County water, according to the Cal Water Annual Water Quality Report…
Even with the additional rain this season all across the state, California is not out of the drought woods yet – the state and west now experiencing a fifth dry year…
It’s no secret that the Valley Air District and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency haven’t always seen eye to eye when it comes to attaining their mutual goal of cleaner, healthier air in the valley…
The state failed to approve the Senate’s spending plan for climate auction revenues in the recently released budget, while discussions of a potential compromise with Big Oil that could weaken pollution reduction policies in order to secure a two-thirds vote has heated up…
This report details the progress that the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) and its boards, departments, and office (BDOs) have made from summer 2013 to the end of 2015…
California’s drought has revealed that when it comes to water, not every community is equal…
California’s drought has revealed that when it comes to water, not every community is equal…
President Obama, the First Lady and their daughters are visiting Yosemite National Park this weekend, and a group known as the “Next 100 Coalition” is hoping he’ll touch on the need for cultural diversity in managing the nation’s public lands…
<