By Tom Frantz and Hannah Brandt On March 9, 2016, Maria Hinojosa, host of the cutting edge NPR show Latino USA, came from New York to Sacramento to moderate a panel on Inequality and Climate Change [...] Continue Reading
Science & Health
Earth Day 2016
By George B. Kauffman Earth Day, begun as an annual event on April 22, 1970, focused public attention on pollution and environmental concerns and made the hitherto esoteric term “ecology” a [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Victory in Kern County
By Tom Frantz Sometimes, in the struggle for environmental justice, there are small victories. Residents of Kern County recently had a big one. About ten years ago, the fossil fuel industry was [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Dairies and Climate Change
By Tom Frantz Around 3% of California’s greenhouse gas emissions come from dairy cows. Most of these emissions are from industrial sized milk factories found in the San Joaquin Valley. The emissions [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Undermining Public Health with Pollution Credits
By Tom Frantz According to the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (air district) there are hundreds of industries in the valley polluting our filthy air with what are considered [...] Continue Reading
SUMMERSET APARTMENTS | Abysmal Conditions Indicative of Neglected South Fresno
By Hannah Brandt and Santy Phaphol It is the day before Thanksgiving and two former Roosevelt High classmates are trudging through soggy grass at Summerset Apartments in south central Fresno. Rusted [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Homeless Advocates See the Bigger Picture
By Paul Thomas Jackson (Editor’s note: The sources for the information included herein are available in the online version of this article.) Those readers who celebrate Jesus’s birthday usually do so [...] Continue Reading
California Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Ministries Provides Aid to Summerset Apartments Victims
By Hannah Brandt By now, most of Fresno and the Central Valley knows about the desperate situation at Summerset Village Apartments in south central Fresno. The squalid conditions have made headlines [...] Continue Reading
Climate Change: Effect on the Oceans
By George B. Kauffman (Editor’s note: The sources for the information included herein are available in the online version of this article.) The latest comprehensive assessment carried out by the [...] Continue Reading
Kern County Fracking Field Trip
By Ron Martin Tom Frantz, Kern County farmer-activist, led about 25 members of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and Fresnans against Fracking on a tour of sites of polluting [...] Continue Reading
Failing Codes
By Simone Cranston-Rhodes It is the day before Thanksgiving, and I am bundled up against the cold as I walk around Summerset apartments with my companion Gone Nanthadeth. Many of us will be thankful [...] Continue Reading
Winter to Escalate European Refugee Crisis as Funds Run Low
By Jessica Hannan Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Nov. 7, 2015, in i4U News at http://www.i4u.com. As winter approaches, the European refugee crisis faces cold weather and [...] Continue Reading