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After a successful run of Policy Advocacy workshops, we are currently gearing up for our Air Pollution 101 workshops...
“Our Community” is a VoiceWaves project and community event being showcased on Aug. 26. Youth reporters were tasked to explore their community through a camera’s lens, each picking one community-based organization to shine a spotlight on...
I always thought pollution was black smoke that came from factories and cars and that all I had to do was avoid breathing it when I saw it...
New America Media, Question & Answer, Ngoc Nguyen
Above: The Navajo Generating System / photo: Joshua Jovanelly, Gila River Indian News
Editor’s note: President Obama unveiled a national plan to tackle climate change earlier this week, using his executive powers to bypass Congress, which had been gridlocked on measures to address the problem...
Long Beach residents currently live in air pollution, light pollution and water pollution. The Long Beach Port also plans to plant 6,000 trees by 2020 in an attempt to improve health quality this May...
So it begins. What has been a long uphill battle, might get even longer.
More than a week has passed since The Port of Los Angeles’ Board of Harbor Commissioners approved the Environmental Impact Report for construction of a cutting-edge shipping yard on the edge of Long Beach by railroad giant Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF)...
Alma Ortega (middle) and Jessica Tovar (right) make environmentally-safe house products.
This time there were no protest signs, nor protesting chants...
By VoiceWaves Guest Youth Reporter Kaitlyn Smith
The noxious smell of diesel began to fill my nose as the bus for the first Toxic Tour departed for our two-hour journey through Long Beach...
New America Media, News Report, Cheryl Katz, Posted: Nov 04, 2012
Tiny particles of air pollution contain more hazardous ingredients in non-white and low-income communities than in affluent white ones, a new study shows...
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