The EPA’s soot pollution update falls dangerously short for Latinos
The EPA’s soot pollution update falls dangerously short for Latinos
On Jan. 6, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a proposal to strengthen the annual standards for fine particulate matter, commonly known as soot, from 12 ug/m3 to between 9 and 10 […]
Meet the fixer: This advocate connects green Latinos
*Why you should read this: Because there’s much work to be done to organize Latino environmentalists. VL By Grist Staff (1 minute read) Ten years ago, Mark Magaña was […]
Hispanic interns try to diversify audience for bird watching
*This is about shortening distances. It’s a long way from a knee-jerk “¿Andas mirando pajaritos?” to traveling the length of the western seaboard, birdwatching, making the country’s national parks accessible […]
Urban Heat Islands amplify global climate change impacts for Latinos
*Take away: “place matters in identifying the most vulnerable populations” to climate change. Read this piece. Inner cities, where most U.S. Latinos live and work, are heat islands, paved-over, radiating […]
Want to build the second century of American conservation? Look to César Chávez.
*César Chavez’s son writes about his father as a guide for Latinos as the future of American conservation. It makes good sense for Latinos to take the lead of the […]
The Heroic Resistance of a Latino Community Besieged by Fracking
*I thought you’d find this interesting. Kern County, California is 51.5% Latino and it generates more than 95% of the fracking oil output in the state. It has one of […]
Poor, minorities carry the burden of frack waste in South Texas
*Fracking industry representatives say the study is flawed. The concern is that fracking wastewater will contaminate groundwater. And there are 217,000 minorities living within three miles of a fracking waste […]
Grijalva Wants to Diversify Environmental Movement
*There’s a growing movement of Chicano/Latino environmentalists, I’m sure Grijalva has it in mind when he talks about diversity. But my feeling is he wants to go deeper, to make […]
There’s a Little “Wild” Out There For All of Us
*What is a Chicano environmentalist? It’s not that far-fetched an idea. VL By Jose G. Gonzalez, Medium Growing up, my memories of the outdoors are a combination, a blend, amestizaje […]
Tierra Y Agua: The Land & Water Conservation Fund
*We don’t talk too much about environmental issues in the Latino community, so we have to fight the perception that we’re a one-issue community. Latinos have a history of heritage […]
