San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith on Friday, May 20, 2011, issued the final judgment in the controversial case involving California’s global warming legislation, AB 32. In Associated of Irritated Residents versus California Air Resources Board, the plaintiffs successfully argued that CARB failed to adequately analyze alternatives to its Cap-And-Trade strategy, and it jumped the gun by approving the plan before the staff completed their responses to comments on their environmental analysis under the California Environmental Quality Act.
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On May 13th, the country’s top scientists and 200,000+ ordinary people urged EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to prioritize scientific evidence over corporate influence and ban the cancer-causing pesticide methyl iodide. Called “one of the most toxic chemicals on earth” by Dr. John Froines, the chair of California’s scientific review of the chemical, methyl iodide is promoted by Arysta LifeScience — the largest privately-held pesticide company in the world.
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María Arevalos has a simple message for parents and school officials: “Pesticides and schools are a bad combination,” she said in Spanish. “It’s something that should not happen.”
She knows from experience. She believes pesticides sprayed on school grounds once sickened her 8-year-old son, Eduardo, who has asthma. She recalled one day, when her son went to school feeling fine, and returned with nausea and no appetite.
As part of a public comment period closing today, the country’s top scientists, businesses and over 200,000 members of the public have urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson to prioritize scientific evidence over corporate influence and ban the cancer-causing pesticide methyl iodide. Methyl iodide, called “one of the most toxic chemicals on earth” by the country’s top scientists, is promoted by Arysta LifeScience—the largest privately-held agrochemical company in the world and manufacturer of the pesticide.
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Fue en una nota al lado de su recibo mensual del agua cuando Maura Alatorre por primera vez se dio cuenta de que ella y su familia consumían el químico arsénico. “Cuando nos mandaban el bill del agua a veces mandaban una hoja diciendo que iba el porcentaje un poquito alto pero que la podíamos usar, en ningún momento decían ‘no la pueden tomar’… y pues uno la tomaba, inclusive yo pienso que hay mucha gente que todavía la toma.”
En la pequeña comunidad campesina de Kettleman City ha vivido Maura por nueve años. Su familia como muchas otras viaja hasta una hora para comprar agua y comida. Kettleman City sólo tiene algunas tiendas generales y a sólo una milla fuera del pueblo también se encuentran gasolineras y toda una variedad de comida rápida.
The air is thick with the stench of chemicals from the agricultural fields surrounding the city. Small, cluttered houses line the sidewalk-less streets. An abandoned swing set rusts in a front yard.
The city’s only park is quiet. Six men wearing cream-colored cowboy hats play a game of cards at a picnic table. At another picnic table, Anna Martinez of Greenaction and Maria Saucedo, the mother of Ashley who died at 10 months due to birth defects, place drip protectors on 120 candles in preparation for the vigil, set to take place in an hour.
The Sierra Club of California, the state’s oldest and largest environmental group, called on Gov. Jerry Brown this week to substantially rewrite the cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gases that former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger considered to be his greatest legacy.