If you live in Hanford, there’s no getting around the fact that you breathe some of the nation’s worst air, according to an annual pollution report released Wednesday by the American Lung Association…
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According to a new air quality report released by the American Lung Association, Bakersfield is the second worst in the nation when it comes to particulate matter and fifth worst in the nation in terms of ozone pollution…
A report on air quality says more than four in 10 Americans live in counties where ozone or particle pollution levels make the air unhealthy to breathe. And most of those counties with “bad air” are in California.
The American Lung Association’s “State of the Air 2015” report ranks cities and counties based on the number of “unhealthy days” for ozone and particle pollution. The Lung Association said ozone and particle pollution triggers asthma attacks and particle pollution can increase the risk of lung cancer.
In the San Joaquin Valley, Fresno-Madera was number one in the country for particle pollution and ozone…
CEJA is excited to announce our Spring 2015 EJ Legislative Agenda! This Legislative Agenda highlights our bills that will significantly impact environmental justice communities. It includes our three priority bills that will increase investments into EJ communities and bring clean renewable energy into low-income communities of color. The Legislative Agenda also includes bills that reform agencies, such as the CPUC and DTSC, that have long under-served environmental justice communities, and bills that address housing, water, and fracking in impacted communities…
Jerry Brown perhaps should put his DOGGR to sleep. Not his family dog, Sutter, but DOGGR — the Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources — the 100-year-old agency that’s been handing out permits for drilling in the Central Valley without records, oversight or enforcement of 21st century environmental laws…
First celebrated in 1970, Earth Day marked a quantum leap for environmental policy in the U.S. That same year, President Richard Nixon signed the National Environmental Policy Act and created the Environmental Protection Agency…
Californians who grumble about not being able to water their lawns every day during the fourth year of a historic drought should swing by this small town in southern Kern County.
Drought or no drought, residents of this rural community can’t drink water from the tap and can’t even use it for cooking because high levels of arsenic — known to cause cancer — become even more concentrated when water is boiled…
About 10 percent of ozone pollution in the San Joaquin Valley is coming from outside of California, particularly from Asia, according to preliminary research presented Tuesday by the University of California, Davis…
To mark the Cesar E. Chavez holiday, a diverse coalition of farmworker groups, labor unions, teachers, parents and scientists gathered to release a new report documenting the presence of a cancer-causing pesticide found in the air in this historical farmworker town…
The brown haze over California’s San Joaquin Valley breadbasket on some winter days has been an unwelcome reminder of the bad old days, when pollution hung so thickly that people were warned to stay inside.
Years of tight environmental rules improved California air quality so much that the state has not issued a smog alert in a dozen years. But prolonged drought and warmer temperatures have triggered a spike in the number of winter days thick with soot and dirt, while summer days have been marred by smog…