Archive for the ‘ Noticias’ Category

Horizons, Deepwater and Otherwise

While the world’s largest single oil spill has been dominating headlines for the past weeks, the deleterious effects of our petro-gluttony have been longstanding. A couple examples to think about: Ecological harm and environmental injustice are part of regular petroleum extraction, not just massive newsworthy oil spills. From Adam Nossiter of the New York Times: [...]

June 26, 2010 · Anson · No Comments
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Organizing for Clean Water in Maywood

An article by Janet Wilson in the Christian Science Monitor highlights the environmental justice work of residents of Maywood: Across the country, studies have increasingly shown that low-income, minority communities endure a disproportionate share of poor living conditions and contamination. A 2007 study by four universities found that nonwhites are far more likely to live [...]

December 26, 2009 · Anson · No Comments
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Relocating Palace Plating

Today’s Los Angeles Times detailed the fight over a polluting metal plating company in South LA: Opened in 1941, it’s the type of factory that drew thousands of working-class families to the city during the boom years of World War II. Yet it was wedged onto a narrow street next to homes and across from [...]

December 22, 2009 · Anson · No Comments
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EJ in Oxford

I was sitting in a cafe in Oxford, UK today when I noticed an article in the Oxford Journal, which encouraged readers to formally speak out against two potential county council-backed incinerators that would both be placed within Sutton Courtenay. The campaign group called Sutton Courtenay Against the Incinerator has facilitated the formal opposition by [...]

October 2, 2009 · Christine · No Comments
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Freeways and the Fight or Flight Response

Adding to the growing evidence of the health harms of freeways and auto-dependency, a recent study highlighted by Infrastructurist found that particulate matter from freeways triggers the fight or flight response in humans: Scientists at the University of Michigan, led by Dr. Robert Brook, found that [polluted air] can increase your blood pressure, and cause [...]

September 29, 2009 · Anson · No Comments
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Toxic Waters

In a series entitled Toxic Waters, the New York Times has been chronicling hazards to the nation’s drinking water supply: Almost four decades after Congress passed the Clean Water Act, the rate of water pollution violations is rising steadily. In the past five years, companies and workplaces have violated pollution laws more than 500,000 times. [...]

September 28, 2009 · Anson · No Comments
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LA Times Features East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

The LA Times’ Margot Roosevelt featured East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice in a front page article earlier this week: Here especially, but also across the country, mainstream foundations, which had long supported environmental groups led by white lawyers and policy wonks, have begun to channel grants to community organizations run by Latinos and blacks [...]

September 26, 2009 · Anson · No Comments
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Green Jobs Petition

Take two seconds to fill out this petition organized by Green for All: http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5379/t/6856/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=499

September 12, 2009 · Anson · No Comments
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How Serial War Became the American Way of Life

Mother Jones recently published an article entitled How Serial War Become the American Way of Life: On July 16, in a speech to the Economic Club of Chicago, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that the “central question” for the defense of the United States was how the military should be “organized, equipped — and [...]

September 9, 2009 · Jackie · No Comments
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The Mayor’s Subway to the Sea Construction Plan

In an August 20, 2009 Los Angeles Times Blog, Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa stated a huge and unrealistic Subway to the Sea Construction Plan: As the most outspoken advocate for the so-called Subway to the Sea, the mayor has long been frustrated by that timetable and it was evident again when he and other [...]

August 27, 2009 · Monte · One Comment
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