While many are celebrating Vice-President Biden’s selection of Sen. Kamala Harris as his VP choice, headlines underscore how life is propelling forward with a renewed sensitivity of oppressive policies, discriminatory practices and blatant racist attitudes. For example, Facebook finally…
People around the globe are getting antsy because of staying home for so long. Did you hear about the archeologists in Peru arrested for violating the stay-at-home orders? So, state by state, city by city are relaxing the stay-at-home…
A new week brings a revision of information of what keeps us safe in these scary times. Now, the CDC is saying that the 6-feet mandatory social distancing may not be far enough and we all have to start…
Among all the usual chaos this White House likes to create, one lawmaker came up with a bipartisan bill that could help alleviate migrants’ despair; What is a contested convention?; The EPA releases a list of disinfectants that kill…
Seems Trump administration feels pressure to overhaul US immigration system before November, and guess who’s leading the charge?; Puerto Rico just can’t get a break, and in this case, the cost is self-inflicted; So, the world has been taught…
In another blow to our national safety when it comes to our own environment, the Trump administration has big plans for our water supply – and it’s not good; Scientists say Puerto Rico has this to look forward to…
Marisa Treviño LatinaLista The Trump administration has been doing its darnedest to shake public confidence in federal institutions since Trump took office. For example, just today when the lowest manufacturing numbers since 2009 were released, Trump again blamed and…
By Marcia G. Yerman Moms Clean Air Force As parents, one of our key and foremost concerns is keeping our children safe. Under the Trump administration’s philosophy of shrinking government, a slew of protections to children’s health are being…
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 Molly Rauch Moms Clean Air Force Ever since Scott Pruitt joined EPA, there have been a slew of reversals and delays of various rules already on the books. A birds-eye view of this regulatory shift shows that…
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…
By Dominique Browning Moms Clean Air Force In the months since his inauguration, Donald Trump has repeatedly undermined our children’s health. He has attempted to strip the EPA of funding, dismantle America’s Clean Power Plan, and disregard research on dangerous…
By Pete Altman NRDC Senator Mitch McConnell has been itching for nearly two years to dismantle the Clean Power Plan with an extreme and rarely-used law called the Congressional Review Act. Now that the Clean Power Plan is…
SaludToday The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has unveiled new strict rules that protect farm workers from hazardous pesticides, Fox Health reports. The new rules will benefit an estimated 2 million workers, mostly Latinos who work at or near…
By Lisette Escobedo Moms Clean Air Force As a hard-working single mother of a five year old, I am deeply concerned by environmental issues that impact my daughter’s well-being, such as carbon pollution. The damage we have caused our…
LatinaLista — A drive through any community in the USA on trash pick-up day reveals an effort to recycle. Yellow lid bins crammed with paper, plastic, boxes, bottles, etc. show that people are getting the message about the environment…
By Nicole Hernández Hammer LatinaLista The summer is well underway and many of us are taking family trips or finding ways to bridge the school break with activities that keep kids having fun outdoors while we parents are working….
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…
By Yanet Pintor The Venture HOUSTON — It’s a cold December night in the city of Houston and David Rodriguez is sitting on his wheelchair in the patio of a Starbucks waiting to share his story. Eager to help….
By Ronnie Citron-Fink Mom’s Clean Air Force The year I graduated high school and drove a beat-up orange Datsun over the George Washington Bridge to discover a brave new world – college, was the same year the…
