Greenaction.org

Maricela Mares Alatorre, longtime Kettleman City resident, speaking at a California Environmental Justice Coalition conference in November 2014 in Kettleman City. Image by Ernesto Saavedra. By Vic Bedoian Two environmental groups filed a civil rights...

KETTLEMAN CITY (CBS SF) — After years of empty promises the state is finally taking action to provide a Central Valley town with clean drinking water. The news comes just months after a KPIX 5 investigation. State water officials made a special visit...

Rejecting the call by fishermen, Tribes, conservationists, family farmers and environmental justice advocates to terminate the Delta Tunnels plan, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on January 4 issued a Secretarial Order that will mandate the completion...

After 10 years of battling against a proposed garbage/plasma arc facility by the citizens in Ottawa, Ontario, the plant was approved. The political battle was lost. However the market has dictated that the plant would not be built anyway. It was too...

The history we grow up with shapes our sense of reality — it’s hard to shake. If you were young during the fight against Nazism, war seems a different, more virtuous animal than if you came of age during Vietnam.  I was born in 1960...