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As women, it is true that we like to be pampered. Every once in a while we need a beauty pick-me-up, and what better way than by going to a salon? We all have an excuse to get our nails done, maybe for a wedding, or an interview, or even just to have pretty hands. But have you ever wondered why salon workers wear gloves and face masks while tending to your needs? I can assure you, it doesn’t so much have to do with your nail hygiene, but more so with toxic chemicals in the products. In California, nail technicians have finally figured out why their coughs are relentless and why cancer rates were increasing, but the EPA no longer recognizes this as an environmental justice issue, and that is a problem all in itself…
On a recent evening, a group of frustrated adults sounded off inside the Boys and Girls Club gymnasium on Cedar Avenue in southeast Fresno.
“I’m really questioning what we’re doing here,” said one.
“I feel like my time is being wasted,” said another, speaking in Spanish.
“Treat us with respect,” added a third. “I feel like you’re not even taking what we’re saying into account.”…
The push for better air quality in the San Joaquin Valley has a new team of advocates – doctors – who are taking a more active role in demanding clean air for the region.
The Central California Asthma Collaborative has partnered with Unmask My City, a global air pollution initiative, with health professionals at the forefront of calling for change.
Fresno is the first city in California to join the initiative, said Jeni Miller, executive director of The Global Climate and Health Alliance, during a news conference Wednesday outside a Boys & Girls Club in southeast Fresno…
The Central California Asthma Collaborative talks about its partnership with Unmask My City to push for clean air in the San Joaquin Valley, which has some of the country’s worst air quality…
The world has just 12 years to limit global warming to moderate levels, according to a recent United Nations report. In response, Democrats Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey laid out a grand plan for the nation to address climate change: the Green New Deal.
“We must be as ambitious and innovative in our solution as possible,” Ocasio-Cortez said at the February press conference announcing the proposal…
The Green New Deal Resolution has correctly articulated both the urgency of our climate crisis, as well as the ultimate outcomes we need to address it. But it is begging for a concrete, achievable policy roadmap to get there. Fortunately, there are some functional capitalist democracies in America—the states—that have already crafted policy to reduce emissions and put people back to work. Congress should look to those places now, as they work to build the components of a Green New Deal.
In California, we know this because have we already designed, drafted, and enacted Green New Deal-style policies…
Gov. Gavin Newsom is again proposing the creation of a tap water tax on all Californians with clean drinking water, a proposal that failed under former Gov. Jerry Brown and in the state Legislature last year.
Newsom’s 2019-2020 budget would create a “safe and affordable drinking water fund [to] enable the State Water Resources Control Board to assist communities, particularly disadvantaged communities, in paying for the short-term and long-term costs of obtaining access to safe and affordable drinking water.”…
The USC Schwarzenegger Institute announced that California Senate President pro Tempore Emeritus Kevin de Leòn will join the institute as a Distinguished Senior Fellow for Climate, Environmental Justice and Health.
De León will lead the Institute’s statewide campaign to fight childhood asthma caused by tailpipe emissions and pollution by identifying barriers to transportation electrification…
Kevin Hamilton was surprised when he learned that, for decades, industries that pollute have been able to trade emissions reductions under a San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District program. It’s like a bank: If a company installs a new technology that reduces its pollution—and that’s the program’s goal—the company can earn what’s called emission reduction credits, or ERCs. It means it can emit more with no penalty. “And you can trade them, they have value,” Hamilton says. “You get a certificate, it’s like a stock certificate.”…