Nonprofit organizations in and around Fresno will soon be receiving generous offers of grant money to conduct outreach in neighborhoods and small communities where average income is low, pollution [...] Continue Reading
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School Board Excludes Spanish Speakers
By Kevin Hall Politics trumped best practices in the recent push by Fresno Unified School District (FUSD) Trustee Elizabeth Jonasson Rosas to name a new school after philanthropists Murray and [...] Continue Reading
You Can “C” Forever from Here
Measure C without end? That’s the recommendation from one consultant: a permanent tax on Fresno County voters—a forever tax—for transportation spending. We all currently pay an extra half cent on [...] Continue Reading
City Seeks Polluter Protections
The Fresno mayor and City Council are working to legally bulletproof future industrial development from citizen lawsuits that challenge their dangerous growth plans. Elected officials seek to wrap a [...] Continue Reading
South Fresno Community versus Industrial Pollution
There’s fresh rot at the core of Fresno politics. Sprawl developers have long controlled land-use decisions by simply providing cash to City Council members and candidates, but infection rates in the [...] Continue Reading
Toxic Tsunami Headed for Fresno
By Kevin Hall Increased diesel exhaust in people’s lungs has a secure future in Fresno. Despite being the focal point of groundbreaking studies by Stanford and UC Berkeley concluded more than a [...] Continue Reading
Climate Equity: How We Win Panel
Wednesday, April 21, at 6 p.m. Host: Mike Rhodes of the Community Alliance newspaperModerator: Kevin Hall, host of Climate Politics on KFCF 88.1 FMTo be recorded for future broadcast.See the [...] Continue Reading
Fracking the Valley
By Kevin Hall California plays a critical role in the future of our planet. Widely regarded as one of the world’s leading governments among the many facing the parallel crises of destabilizing [...] Continue Reading
Climate Change – Special Section
The Community Alliance newspaper will print a special section on climate change in April 2021. Climate activist Kevin Hall is putting together articles, photos and other illustrations because, [...] Continue Reading
Air Pollution Trifecta Hits Fresno
By Kevin Hall A trio of life-endangering air pollution events hit Fresno early last month. Unlike the smoke from last summer’s wildfires or this winter’s fireplaces, these threats weren’t found in [...] Continue Reading
Make “C” Stand for Climate, Community
By Kevin Hall Twenty years ago, local business and political leaders learned an important lesson at the ballot box: People really want clean air. That’s why in 2002 voters rejected the first [...] Continue Reading
“Disappointed” Enough for Change?
By Kevin Hall The year 2020 tied 2016 as the hottest in human history. Other new records were set for Arctic heat and wildfires, tropical storms in the Atlantic, and locally, the Creek Fire, the [...] Continue Reading