By Mark Magaña and Dominique Browning LatinaLista It is a myth that Latinos don’t have the time nor interest to care about climate change. The truth is quite the opposite: Latinos have long been leading the fight against dangerous…
By Felipe Benítez LatinaLista September 22 marks the 25th National Public Lands Day, the largest, all-volunteer event focused on restoring America’s public lands. Hundreds of thousands of individuals and volunteer organizations from all across the country team up with…
By Cliff Despres Salud America What are you doing for Cinco de Mayo? Many will use it as an excuse to party with margaritas and tacos. We at Salud America! invite you to think outside the box and…
LatinaLista — Activism used to be a lonely club. Not to mention, a dirty word. Though among conservative circles, it’s still as distasteful a word as “liberal.” But unless you were a hardcore activist who regularly took to the…
By Rebecca Flansburg Multicultural Children’s Book Day So What is the Green Kids Club? Green Kids Club is designed to teach young children the importance of environmental stewardship through picture books. The series was developed to teach children…
By Dominique Browning Moms Clean Air Force No one was more surprised than I when EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt asked Moms Clean Air Force in for a meeting. After all, we have been relentless in our critique of the…
By Marcia G. Yerman Moms Clean Air Force The Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) has been released. Over 1500 journals and reports were examined to “assesses the physical science of climate change.” It has presented findings stating – unequivocally…
LatinaLista — On March 2, 2016, the globally recognized Honduran Lenca environmental activist, Berta Cáceres, was brutally assassinated because of her efforts to fight environmentally unfriendly interests from exploiting the natural resources of her ancestral lands The last environmental…
By Marcia G. Yerman Moms Clean Air Force Just as the tobacco companies worked to brand cigarettes as harmless, the coal industry has pushed to convince the public that their product is safe for the environment. The phrase “clean…
LatinaLista — In today’s world, refugees are a fast-growing demographic. Yet, it’s not one often seen in North America. Unlike Syria, Iraq, Somalia, etc. where hundreds flee violence and invasion, it’s only when catastrophic natural disasters strike our shores…
By Deborah Charnes LatinaLista I take the bus from San Jose, Costa Rica to Nicaragua. The bus drops me off about 25 minutes in from the border. There are no stop lights. No signs. But I know this…
By Katy Farber Moms Clean Air Force What your child learns about climate change at school depends on where you live. PreK-12 science standards are, in large measure, decided at the state level. That means what your child learns…
LatinaLista — Long before Hurricanes Maria, Irma and Harvey, Latinos knew that man had a hand in climate-induced disasters. A 2015 poll by EarthJustice and GreenLatinos found that 66 percent of Latinos believed global warming and climate change were…
Moms Clean Air Force The oceans are warming. Surface temperature of the oceans has warmed about 1 to 3 degrees F over the last century. Warmer oceans feed more energy into hurricanes, so they grow stronger. Wind speeds are…
By Adrianna Quintero ncluido Without a doubt, Hurricane Harvey is a historic catastrophe. After making landfall Friday and becoming a tropical storm, it has continued to wreak havoc: death, loss, missing persons, and an immediate and lingering fear among…
LatinaLista — It doesn’t seem that long ago that one of the first environmental campaigns to capture global imagination and concern was the ‘Save the Rainforest‘ campaign. Everyone, from kids to retirees, bought stuffed, colorful toucans and sported green…
By Erika Ebsworth-Goold Futurity After conducting a new research approach using actual commutes, engineers discovered a simple shift can reduce the health risks of air pollution on the road. Research has linked an increased amount of air pollutants…
US Ambassador (Ret.) Antonio Garza ncluido It looks to be construction season in South Texas. Along this stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border, 31 miles of wall may soon be going up and companies are wading through the final…
By Merrill Singer The Conversation Last week’s record-setting heat in the Pacific Northwest and current triple-digit temperatures in Arizona are the latest reminders that climate change is heating up the Earth. This trend is a serious threat to cities,…
By Brett Israel Futurity As white people move out of neighborhoods, noise pollution rises. And noise pollution is inescapable in segregated cities, where it is worse for everyone, according to the first breakdown of noise exposure along racial, ethnic,…
Moms Clean Air Force Air pollution can cause serious health problems. Rarely, it can even kill people — and we’re not exaggerating. That’s why we care so much about the laws that protect us from air pollution. Read on…
By Paige Wolf Moms Clean Air Force Our train into DC from Philadelphia was 90 minutes late for the annual Play-In for Climate Action. As we waited for the light to change at a crosswalk we noticed two men in suits…
By Betsy López-Wagner ncluido Earlier this month, more than 60 groups joined forces to launch “I Am Still In,” reminding the world that President Donald Trump does not represent the American people on climate. The League of Conservation…
By Adrianna Quintero ncluido The Clean Water Act turns 45 years old in October. It is a landmark law that has saved lakes and rivers and has been used to hold polluters accountable for decades. It contains a bold…
By Melissa Vargas Incluido EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt likes to argue that EPA should focus more on its “core missions,” yet he comes to Congress to argue that funding for most of those very missions – such as protecting air and…
