As Daniel Gonzalez grew up in the high desert, the idea of making a career out of studying the environment wasn’t on his radar. After a brief stint at Cal State Fullerton, he headed to community college with no declared major, unsure of what he wanted to do with hisContinue Reading
The city of Chicago is violating the civil rights of its residents by relocating polluting businesses from white communities into Black and Latino areas that already are overwhelmed with environmental and health issues, federal officials have found after a nearly two-year investigation. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban DevelopmentContinue Reading
American energy corporation the Williams Companies was facing yet another setback in its attempts to build a natural gas pipeline in New York. After a years-long battle, state regulators and pushback from protesters had forced the company to cancel its previously proposed Constitution pipeline from Pennsylvania to New York. AndContinue Reading
When it comes to industrial pollution, it’s often Chicago’s Latino and Black communities who bear the brunt. Nowhere has that been more evident than Chicago’s Southeast Side. After a two-year battle, environmental justice advocates fought metal shredding company General Iron and succeeded when the city denied the company a permit inContinue Reading
The majority of Latino voters in the western United States are concerned about climate change, access to public lands and other environment-related topics, according to the 12th annual Conservation in the West Poll. Colorado College’s State of the Rockies Project released the results of the poll last week and aContinue Reading
EPA Administrator Michael Regan speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Washington. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan will visit Houston on Friday as part of a weeklong tour of neighborhoods across the South where pollution has impacted people’s health — predominantly forContinue Reading
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — At a recent house party near the U.S.-Mexico border, the conversation with Democratic congressional candidate Rochelle Garza flowed from schools and taxes to immigration and efforts to convert an old railway line into a hiking trail. One thing that didn’t come up that Friday night overContinue Reading
Six-year-old Paloma Bribriesco shows the way around the Indian Creek Nature Center in Cedar Rapids. She just finished nature camp. And sometimes, she ran around too fast to keep up. Her dad Andrew Bribriesco cheered her on: “¡Correle, correle!” (Run, run!) Paloma’s pink and white tennis shoes pound the dampContinue Reading
Sylvia Adetona has deposited checks at the same financial institution for more than 25 years. That doesn’t mean she trusts banks. Over the decades, the 68-year-old South Los Angeles resident has seen the unequal treatment banks gave communities of color and low-income customers. In the leadup to the Great Recession,Continue Reading
