Louie Campos stopped drinking the water from his faucets in Visalia, California, so long ago that it takes him a minute to recall just how many years it has been since he held a glass to the tap and took a swill…
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Water supplies in many California public schools have repeatedly exceeded safe drinking standards…
The California Environmental Justice Alliance has issued its 2016 Environmental Justice Legislative Agenda, focusing on climate, land use, budget investments, power plant siting and natural gas storage, among other issues the group says have an outsized impact on disadvantaged communities…
The California Environmental Justice Alliance has issued its 2016 Environmental Justice Legislative Agenda, focusing on climate, land use, budget investments, power plant siting and natural gas storage, among other issues the group says have an outsized impact on disadvantaged communities…
Students at as many as 1,600 California public schools may have been impacted by water that did not meet primary drinking water standards between 2003-2014, according to a report released today by the Community Water Center and the Environmental Justice Coalition for Water…
Radio Interview w/ Dr. Buddiga on American Lung’s State of the Air Report…
The groups advocate for many different issues ranging from gender equity, environmental justice, workers’ rights, immigrant rights, health care and more…
Federal and local officials are celebrating as the San Joaquin Valley attained its first ozone standard – albeit one that dates back to the late 1970s and that most of the country achieved by the November 2010 deadline…
Federal and local officials are celebrating as the San Joaquin Valley attained its first ozone standard – albeit one that dates back to the late 1970s and that most of the country achieved by the November 2010 deadline…
After 15 years with arsenic contamination, one small Kern County community took the struggle for clean water into its own hands–in a campaign that could serve as a role model for others…