By Lloyd G. Carter A coalition of fishing and environmental groups has filed a Public Trust suit in Sacramento County Superior Court alleging the State Water Resources Control Board (Water Board) and [...] Continue Reading
Environment
The Occupy Movement Comes to Fresno
By Jesse Franz Since its beginning on Sept. 17, the Occupy Wall Street movement has spread to more than 100 cities around the country, from New York to California and Seattle to Miami. On Oct. 9, [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air
Valley Air Board’s InsensitivityBy Kevin Hall According to the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, it was an orange flag day on a Thursday afternoon in late September, “unhealthy for [...] Continue Reading
$54 a Month for Water You Can’t Drink
By David Bacon When Mary Broad moved to Lanare in 1955, there were only four other families still living in this tiny, unincorporated community in the middle of the San Joaquin Valley, halfway [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air
By Kevin Hall The No Spin O-Zone Readers of the Fresno Bee were greeted to an amazing front-page headline a few weeks back, one that must have had many thinking they’d awakened in a parallel [...] Continue Reading
Progressive Religion…Is Not an Oxymoron: Sound Bites
By David E. Roy Author’s note: The “progressive religion” in this column is more implicit and belongs under the social justice expression of many of the world’s religions. In Christianity, [...] Continue Reading
Frederick Soddy: Radioactivity, Isotopes, Social Responsibility of Scientists and the Environment
By George B. Kauffman Amid the kerfuffle caused by John Hutson’s misguided attempts to introduce nuclear power plants into Fresno County despite the recent Fukushima nuclear disaster, I thought [...] Continue Reading
Road Warrior
By Lloyd G. Carter (Editor’s note: In Part 1 of this two-part series, which ran last month in the Community Alliance and was titled “Perdition Road,” the battle over Cascadel Road in mountainous [...] Continue Reading
Perdition Road
By Lloyd G. Carter Editor’s note: This is part one of a two-part series. Part two will run next month. North Fork—Madera County’s most fire-vulnerable mountain subdivision—has gotten a lot more [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air
By Kevin Hall Editor’s note: Long-time readers will remember Kevin Hall’s column that ran regularly in the Community Alliance for several years as he fought pollution in the San Joaquin Valley as a [...] Continue Reading
Climate of Denial: Can Science and the Truth Withstand the Merchants of Poison?
[Editor’s note: Reprinted with permission from Rolling Stone magazine (www.rollingstone.com).] The first time I remember hearing the question “is it real?” was when I went as a young boy to see a [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
NLRB Judge Overturns Kaiser Election, Calls for New Vote Kaiser workers’ right to a fair election was vindicated by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). In a 34-page ruling, Judge Lana Parke [...] Continue Reading