A statewide survey of California voters, commissioned by the non-profit Hispanic Access Foundation and conducted by David Binder Research, finds that more than three in four Californians (78 percent) oppose actions taken by President Donald Trump to remove protections from about 2 million acres of public lands that were previously declared national monuments. Only 18 percent support his decision…
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In California’s San Joaquin Valley, Linda Birnbaum, Ph.D., director of NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program, and others saw local organizations responding to the region’s environmental health challenges. The valley, also known as the Central Valley, was the setting of Birnbaum’s latest community tour and workshop. The visit followed a meeting of the NIEHS-funded Environmental Health Core Centers at the University of California at Davis (UCD)…
2018 Environmental Justice Small Grants Project Summaries…
California has the world’s fourth largest greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program, which raises billions of dollars for the state. An innovative project is directing some of that revenue to bringing renewable power and energy efficiency to some of the state’s most disadvantaged communities…
When it comes to the heat and the bad air quality accompanying it, there’s no relief in sight, authorities say. Smoke and debris from the Carr and Ferguson fires have prompted The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District to issue a Valley-wide health caution…
Linda Birnbaum, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, held a community forum with regional environmental advocates, and toured sites of environmental concern…
The Trump administration could move this week to revoke California’s decades-old ability to set its own pollution limits for cars, a potential blow to the state’s fight against global warming. The move, widely expected for months, will ignite another pitched legal battle between California and federal officials, who spent much of the George W. Bush administration sparring in court over the state’s efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions from cars…
A few years ago, Adan Anguiano was in prison. Now he has a career installing solar panels in East Los Angeles…
People at a public hearing at City Hall on July 12 lined up to the back of the room for a chance to speak about their fears of radiation and noise pollution from an explosives test site in the foothills south of Tracy. The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District is considering issuing Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory a permit to increase explosives tests at Site 300, about a mile and a half from the city’s southern border along Corral Hollow Road…
Linda Birnbaum visited Stockton earlier this week to learn about environmental and community trauma firsthand. She got an earful. Birnbaum, a toxicologist who received her Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health. She’s held that position since 2009, as well as leading the National Toxicology Program…