Central California Environmental Justice Network, Kern and Fresno Counties ($20,000)
The “Building Community Capacity to Monitor, Track and Address Environmental Health Hazards in Kern and Fresno Counties” project will support the maintenance and improvement of two web-based reporting systems that allow residents to report environmental hazards and notify agencies responsible for investigating and addressing potential environmental violations. The project will train residents to use the reporting systems and conduct outreach in the environmental justice communities of Wasco and Arvin in Kern County and Huron and West Fresno in Fresno County, educating at least 600 residents…
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A growing demand for milk and cheese in China has the potential to bring California’s beleaguered dairy industry back to life — and with it, renewed concern about its damaging effects on the environment…
Milk production is a nearly $8 billion business in California. Meanwhile, Chinese milk consumption tripled in the last decade and the dairy industry there wants to produce more. In another report in the “Food for 9 Billion” series, special correspondent Suzanne Rust examines the complex exchange of resources and money over milk…
After graduating from HLS, Laurel Firestone ’04 received an Equal Justice Works Fellowship to start a rural poverty water project in San Joaquin Valley. Two years later, she and community organizer Susana De Anda founded the Community Water Center, an environmental justice organization working to ensure that clean water is a human right, not a privilege…
This proposed coal plant is slated for a sacrifice zone, a place where many corporations want us not to see, in hopes that the land and even the people will be forgotten about, and they can continue with business as usual…
In anticipation for the Department of Pesticide Regulation hearings scheduled to happen in Fresno on June 17th and June 18th members of CCEJN and Communities for a New California (CNC) sought to mobilize Kerman youth. Kerman was identified as the second area in the state with the most Chloropicrin use. The members of the Kerman community are feeling the repercussions of this sad fact as they see high levels of asthma and cases of cancer. Even talking to the youth one can see that they have been affected and know clearly what it means to live in Kerman…
From December 4-6, 2013, funders and affinity group leaders will convene in the San Joaquin Valley in Central California for a three-day learning tour. Six funder affinity groups and collaboratives with diverse issue areas of interest are co-organizing this tour to encourage collaboration, strengthen interest and investment in the region, and to provide funders with an opportunity to see how issue areas intersect…
California’s San Joaquin Valley is one of the richest agricultural regions in the world, with Fresno County farmers receiving a record $6.8 billion in revenues last year. But the region also consistently ranks among the nation’s most impoverished. Sometimes called “Appalachia of the West,” it’s where families, especially Hispanic immigrants and their children, live year after year in destitution…
Yep, it’s 2013 in California- a state usually thought of as one of the most progressive in the country, yet there are plans (the temporary permits have already been issued) to build a brand new coal plant in California’s Central Valley.
For the non-Californians out there, the Central Valley is a much different place than the well-known cities, like San Francisco and Los Angeles.
California’s Central Valley has some of the worst air quality in the country, a severe lack of water and is often referred to as America’s Bread Basket. This facility would further exacerbate the troubling trend in air pollution..
A bevy of bills authored by two Monterey County assemblymen that will have a significant impact on water quality in the region passed the Assembly Friday and are on their way to the state Senate.
Assemblymen Luis Alejo, D-Salinas, and Mark Stone, D-Scotts Valley, both saw their water bills passed by the Assembly on the last day before the cutoff for Legislative action this year.
Two of the bills, Alejo’s AB21 and Stone’s AB467, would establish short-term funds for disadvantaged communities impacted by drinking water contaminated by nitrates…