It’s not often that interest groups call out public officials by their race, but as environmentalists evaluated state lawmakers’ voting records last year, that is just what they did…
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This summer, Kettleman City residents will once again be surveyed to determine possible links between an area landfill and birth defects and disease…
This summer, Kettleman City residents will once again be surveyed to determine possible links between an area landfill and birth defects and disease…
The American Lung Association has once again confirmed, in their annual report, that San Joaquin Valley residents are breathing the worst air in the nation and subsequently suffering the worst health effects from pollution…
A huge amount of America’s substandard drinking water is actually consumed in all but invisible rural areas like Matheny Tract…
Legislation to prevent ongoing drinking water contamination like that seen in Flint, Mich., from harming families in disadvantaged communities throughout California was approved Monday on a 4-2 vote by the Senate Appropriations Committee…
Glenn Towery had already served 11 years for stealing a car at gunpoint when he was transferred to Kern Valley State Prison in 2009. Riding up I-5 to the San Joaquin Valley, 150 miles north of his native Los Angeles, he probably smelled the sulfuric odor of industrial cow lots. But once he arrived, he would inhale something worse: a fungus that might kill him…
The Kings County Board of Supervisors will consider authorizing the chairman to sign an agreement Tuesday for a community health survey in Kettleman City…
Residents of Bakersfield breathe some of the most polluted air in the nation, thanks to a confluence of vehicle exhaust, industrial operations, and stagnant valley air. In an effort to combat pollution, air quality advocates are now targeting a potential source of emissions that, at the moment, is not even operating…
El Niño came to California, and now the state has been saved of its five-year drought––or at least some parts have…