In California’s San Joaquin Valley, the nation’s leading agricultural region, Latinos make up the great majority of farmworkers. They are also disproportionately likely to live in communities where drinking water supplies are contaminated with elevated levels of nitrate, a toxic chemical that primarily comes from polluted farm runoff…
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California officials have long known that pollution from the state’s $50 billion farming industry fouls drinking water sources in poor Latino communities where many toil as farmworkers. Now a review of state and federal data shows the problem is getting worse…
United Latinos Vote recently placed a full page ad in the Sacramento Bee titled “An Open Letter to the Sierra Club…
California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed an executive order (EO) requiring sales of all new passenger vehicles to be zero-emission by 2035, along with additional measures to eliminate harmful emissions from the transportation sector…
How many colors are there in a rainbow of polluted air? According to the federal Environmental Protection Agency and your smart phone’s weather app, the answer is six: green, yellow, orange, red, purple and maroon…
California became the first state in the nation to ban two dozen toxic chemicals from cosmetics Wednesday when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill to that effect into law…
Governor Gavin Newsom last night vetoed AB 995, a bipartisan bill to reform the state’s top toxics regulator, the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), and clean up toxic pollution in frontline communities throughout California…
The Legislature took an important step in protecting environmental justice communities from toxic waste; now it’s the governor’s turn…
In Salinas, if you make a run to the grocery store to pick up a bag of kale, you’ll probably pass rows and rows of the leafy green…
It was early November 2018, and the boosters of Kern County were nervous. Gavin Newsom had been elected governor of California a few days before, and he had promised all campaign long to get tough on California’s oil industry…