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
Environment
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
Southeast Development Project Scaled Back
Community activism is forcing the City of Fresno to rethink its ambitious and controversial Southeast Development Area (SEDA) plan. The proposed development project of massive proportions would [...] Continue Reading
1,3-D Policy Endangers Our Children
Across California, farmworker communities are sounding the alarm: The state’s regulation of the cancer-causing fumigant 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D, brand name Telone) is not only dangerously [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Briefs
Latino Voters Speak UnidosUS, the nation’s largest Latino civil rights and advocacy organization, released its “Bipartisan Poll of Hispanic Voters: The Road to 2026” in early November. Here are [...] Continue Reading
Los lobistas inundan las negociaciones de la COP30
POR PERSONAL DE KICK BIG POLLUTERS OUT Belém, Brasil: Un nuevo análisis revela que más de 1600 lobistas de combustibles fósiles han obtenido acceso a las negociaciones climáticas de la COP30 en [...] Continue Reading
Farming Communities Protest Fumigant Regulations
Californians for Pesticide Reform has launched an assault on the state’s regulation of agricultural fumigants 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D) and chloropicrin, calling on the Department of Pesticide [...] Continue Reading