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An Earth Day message for California: Move faster on climate change msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Earth Day 2021 call: California, fight climate change faster latimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from latimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. For more than half a century, 441 Bauchet Street has been the address where Los Angeles’ most stark social and environmental inequalities converge. It’s the location of L.A.’s Men’s Central Jail, the largest facility in the most populated county jail system in the country. On any given day, about 5,000 people are incarcerated there. A block south from the jail is the 101 freeway, one of the most traveled highways in America, which generates dangerous levels of air pollution linked to a slew of birth defects. A block east is the L.A. River, home to at least 20 different pollutants, from feces to oil, at levels that violate federal standards. Another 100 yards east is the SP Railyard and Union Pacific Transportation Center, which operate at all hours, receiving big rig diesel trucks that spew an estimated 40 tons of particulate matter into the ai ....
Community Environmental Council Adds New Members, Officers to Board of Directors noozhawk.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from noozhawk.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
FEMA Grant Could Relieve Effects of ‘Environmental Racism’ For decades, residents in Centreville, Ill., and other economically challenged cities in the area have suffered from sewage and flooding problems that could be addressed by a $22 million FEMA grant. by Jim McKay / March 17, 2021 TNS When you consider that Centreville, Ill., is one of the poorest cities in the state, it’s easy to see how the city’s flooding and sewage problems have plagued it for decades without help. But there is hope that all with those problems on the radar of some in higher government, things will change. With the support of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who called the situation “a textbook example of environmental racism,” Centreville, Cahokia and Alorton hope to share $22 million through a FEMA BRIC (Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities) grant. ....