Last week, CWC and our partners spoke at a State Capitol briefing hosted by Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia about challenges and opportunities for California schools impacted by unsafe drinking water…
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Nitrate contamination in California’s San Joaquin Valley is so pervasive that many people lack access to clean drinking water…
Nitrate contamination in California’s San Joaquin Valley is so pervasive that many people lack access to clean drinking water…
“Don’t even get me started on how people aren’t dying en masse from air pollution anyhow,” this from Lois Henry, a comment of hers in the Bakersfield Californian op-ed “The feds don’t like our air? Let them fix it, then.”
In Jurupa Valley, Mira Loma Village residents used to enjoy beautiful views of the mountains, but over the last few years the area has quickly urbanized with industrial warehouses…
Despite a new environmental justice action plan, the EPA has a poor record of protecting communities of color from toxic environments…
Sometimes, in the 1990s, Maria Garcia’s children would return home from school in Oxnard, California, complaining of headaches…
Matheny Tract residents can finally open their taps to clean water…
Only 1% of solar in California can be found in environmental justice communities but now the Multifamily Solar Roofs Program will invest $1 billion for solar for low-income renters across the state!…
The Multifamily Affordable Housing Solar Roofs (Multifamily Solar Roofs) program is the largest solar incentive program in the country targeted to disadvantaged and low-income renters residing in affordable multifamily properties…