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Environment
Climate Change Drives California’s Water Plan
California’s natural resources agencies are beginning to move ahead with an updated state water plan in response to climate warming that threatens an estimated 10% reduction in the state’s available [...] Continue Reading
Pesticide Reform Movement
Below are important updates on helping to advance health protections for farmworking families. Federal Preemption Attempt Pesticide regulation falls under combined laws among federal, state and [...] Continue Reading
Environmental Justice Meets Animal Rights
To many in Fresno, Kettleman City marks a stopping point on the way to Southern California. Less well-known is its decades-long history of fighting for environmental justice. At the intersection of [...] Continue Reading
Western States Wrangle Over Shrinking Colorado River
Colorado River water has been a source of contention between seven southwestern states for decades. Nearly a quarter-century of drought has created more stress. The states have not yet come [...] Continue Reading
Serving Rural Communities
Michael Evans has produced this informative slide show about the Community Alliance effort to serve the rural communities in the San Joaquin Valley. You can see the slide show below. This is a .pdf [...] Continue Reading
Tribus de California Luchan por los Derechos del Agua
Por Vic Bedoian Recientemente, la Junta Estatal de Control de Recursos Hídricos celebró audiencias exhaustivas sobre la actualización del Plan del Delta de la Bahía, que regula la cantidad de agua [...] Continue Reading
Standing Up for Environmental Justice
BY ANGEL GARCIA Nearly a decade after community members first took a stand against the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) for its handling of the cancer-causing fumigant [...] Continue Reading
Sierra Club
March 2026 Sponsored Page This is a .pdf of the March 2026 Sierra Club Sponsored Page. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier reading. Simply place your [...] Continue Reading
Orange Cove Grapples with Hydrogen Blending Plan
Orange Cove is a small Fresno County town nestled against the Sierra foothills surrounded by citrus orchards, as it has been for well over a century. The usual worries in this Valley farming are [...] Continue Reading
Standing Together for Healthier Communities
In 2025, families faced uncertainty, organizers felt exhaustion and frontline communities continued to live with the daily reality of pesticide exposure. Yet even amid struggle, the year reminded us [...] Continue Reading