By Marcia G. Yerman Moms Clean Air Force After the founding fathers put together the Constitution, James Madison penned the additional Bill of Rights in 1791. Too bad protecting the environment wasn’t included. At the end of the 18th…
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Keeping the familia safe while ridding cucarachas & weeds calls for better choices in household chemicals
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By Nicole Hernández Hammer LatinaLista As a child, I remember how happy my mother was when our cousin Panchito, a pest-control worker, would stop by our house and spray the house and yard for free. He’d come often and…
By Margaret Roach Mom’s Clean Air Force “Where are the monarch butterflies this year?” One of many recent emails on the topic asked me. Headlines about monarch decline seem to confirm gardeners’ observations: Populations of the once-familiar orange-and-black creatures…
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Guest Voz: It is time for the EPA to step up protection of farmworkers
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By Hector Sanchez LatinaLista How valuable is a man or woman? How valuable is a farmworker? How do you measure the value of a life? These are questions Cesar E. Chavez once asked us to consider. The revered labor…
