Tom Frantz (Association of Irritated Residents) & Cesar Campos (Central California Environmental Justice Network) joins Dolores Weller on the show to look back on 2015 and review the year’s biggest air quality issues…
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Yesterday, Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D¬San Diego) announced the appointment of longtime environmental justice leader Diane Takvorian to the California Air Resources Board. Under the leadership of Speaker Atkins and Senator Fran Pavley, AB 1288 was signed into law last year which adds two new seats to the ARB for representatives who work directly with communities vulnerable to climate and air pollution…
Hoy a las 6 p.m. la 1era parte del Reportaje Especial Enemigo Subterráneo. Para algunos, la verdadera revolucion energetica de Estados Unidos; para otros, un adversario que ha desquebrajado su priopia salud y la del medio ambiente donde viven…
Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) said today that a new report on the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) reveals an organization failing to perform its basic function of protecting the public and environment from industrial hazardous waste and contamination…
Kiran visits the Central Valley’s Cawelo Water District where the drought is causing farmers to use water produced in the oil drilling process to irrigate their crops. She takes in the smells so you don’t have to…
According to the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (air district) there are hundreds of industries in the valley polluting our filthy air with what are considered “surplus emissions”. These are emissions of air pollution which do not need to be decreased because we will supposedly be able to meet National Ambient Air Quality Standards by other means and consequently experience a life expectancy equal to other regions in the state…
When the California Environmental Justice Alliance released our first Environmental Justice Scorecard in 2013 to look at how our legislators were voting on environmental policies that impact the people most impacted by environmental hazards — low-income communities and communities of color — we did not have a single perfect score…
Don’t try to tell Dr. Robert D. Bullard that the noxious water disaster in Flint, Mich., is anything but business as usual in the United States. “My first take was that this is déjà vu all over again,” Bullard says. “When will this madness stop?”…
Kiran meets Tom Steyer, who sends her to the Central Valley to meet Californians who are facing a major injustice – they’ve run out of water…
Votes on big-ticket environmental legislation have become proxies for determining who is a moderate Democrat and have stirred up electoral challenges in which some see racial undertones. Highlighting those overlaps, the California Environmental Justice Alliance is unveiling report cards today that detail how business-friendly Democrats and members of ethnic caucuses voted…