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By Pablo Jaime Sáinz     In August of 2010, Patricia Saenz learned about the Environmental Health Coalition (EHC) when her rental house in City Heights tested positive for lead.     The non-profit organization headquartered inNational Cityhelped her begin the lead abatement through a program funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).     [...]

 Por Pablo Jaime Sáinz En agosto del 2010, Patricia Saenz conoció a la Environmental Health Coalition (EHC) cuando la casa que rentaba en City Heights salió positiva en una prueba de plomo. La organización sin fines de lucro con sede en National City le ayudó a iniciar el programa de retiro de plomo a través [...]

(Part II) By Janet Wilson EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second and final part of an investigative report by California Watch, that chronicles the struggle of one Latino family from Maywood, Calif. – a small city in southeast Los Angeles County that sits in a sea of heavy industry — as they attempt to pinpoint [...]

    While California’s San Joaquin Valley is home to some of the nation’s richest agricultural resources, half of the people who live and work there face elevated levels of air and water pollution coupled with poverty, limited education, language barriers, and racial and ethnic segregation, according to a three-year UC Davis study.     The study, [...]

Commentary: By Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard    Californians, like all Americans, love breathing clean, healthy air. We relish that picture perfect moment: a clear view of the mountains or ocean, kids playing soccer or baseball, enjoying a picnic in the park on a warm day, or just a brisk walk with the dog.    These are [...]

Comentario: By Jorge Madrid y Valeri Vasquez    Por mucho tiempo la Agencia de Protección Ambiental, o EPA, ha protegido la salud y el bienestar de todos los estadounidenses, particularmente de las familias latinas. Desafortunadamente, los políticos conservadores lideran esfuerzos encaminados a atacar, retirar el financiamiento y en algunos casos incluso a abolir la EPA. [...]

By Laura Carlsen     With the exception of one stubborn nation that insisted to the end on an agreement that would meet minimum scientific standards for reverting global warming, world leaders agreed to: dodge binding emissions controls, promise funds with no sources attached, leave untouched the intellectual property regime that restricts the flow of green [...]

Toxic emissions from maquiladora trucks endanger public health   Tijuana, BC — Members of Environmental Health Coalition’s Tijuana-based youth group released the first in a series of self-published comic books documenting the struggle for environmental justice in Mexico’s border communities.     EHC’s Colectivo Chilpancingo Youth Group created the comic book “We Want Clean Air” to support [...]

TIJUANA, MEXICO — Today in Tijuana B. C., Mexico, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Mexican Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT), the Environmental Protection Agency of Baja California, the California Air Resources Board and the Border Environment Cooperation Commission will initiate the Baja California Air Monitoring Network coverage assessment study and the Tijuana-Rosarito [...]

Saqueadores Amenazan Playas de Anidación – Piden Campamentos Tortugeros Portección A Policías y Militares Por Sergio Flores Hernández  PETATLÁN, Guerrero  - El campamento tortuguero La Tortuga Feliz, ubicado en Juluchuca, Municipio de Petatlán liberó este fin de semana mil 500 tortuguitas marinas, con la presencia de organizaciones civiles como COSTASALVAjE de protección al medio ambiente [...]

Environmental activists to be recognized as the “Coastal Community Defense Champion” By Mariana Martínez  Human borders have no meaning to air, earth, and water, something well understood by environmental activists, whom in the last decade have worked closely, shoulder to shoulder, with their counterparts in San Diego-Tijuana in the search of environmental justice needed for [...]

Por Mariana Martínez  Las fronteras humanas no tienen mayor relevancia para el aire, la tierra o el agua, algo entendido bien por los activistas ambientales, que desde hace al menos una década han colaborado de manera cercana con sus contrapartes en Tijuana-San Diego en búsqueda de la justicia ambiental que merecemos todos.  Esta ha sido [...]

Piden Senado y Científicos que el Riesgo del Tiburón Martillo sea Reconocido Internacionalmente 100 Millones de Tiburones son Aniquilados Cada Año: Especialistas Por Sergio Flores Hernández México, D. F. — El senador Luis Alberto Coppola Joffroy y científicos especialistas, demandaron al Presidente Felipe Calderón Hinojosa que México sea promovente para ingresar al tiburón martillo (Sphyrna [...]