After more than a decade of East Orosi residents struggling without clean drinking water, the State Water Board on Tuesday took a huge and critically necessary step by issuing a mandatory consolidation order for a neighboring district to connect East Orosi to safe water…
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Nayamin Martinez, CCEJN’s Director, gives us a look at YES! Youth Environmentally Savvy…
Secure water access is a fundamental human right. Our study reveals disparities in piped water access in urban areas in the United States…
A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists outlines wide-reaching environmental impacts affecting the health and economy of San Joaquin Valley communities from extreme heat to water scarcity and pollution…
Due to a long history of poor planning and neglecting equity, our energy system is not resilient enough to handle increasing climate disasters like wildfires and extreme heat. Such disasters are straining our electric grid and resulting in blackouts, shutoffs, and increased pollution that hurt disadvantaged, low-income, and vulnerable community members first and worst…
A concept that previously garnered attention with activists and select government agencies, environmental justice (EJ) is now regularly discussed in corporate boardrooms and among C-suite executives…
A concept that previously garnered attention with activists and select government agencies, environmental justice (EJ) is now regularly discussed in corporate boardrooms and among C-suite executives…
Driving down Taft’s main street, lifetime oil advocate Les Clark, 77 gestures to a parade of blank shop windows and “For Sale” signs. “Closed, closed… that’s closed, there used to be a bank there. She went out of business. They’ve closed. You can see how sad it is.”…
California Air Resources Board hosts heated exchange over perceived lack of transparency on racial justice statement; other state agencies moving towards learning about dismantling their racist structures…
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has published an educational guide for people living in California’s San Joaquin Valley to better understand how climate change threatens their communities and what they can do to prepare for worsening living conditions…