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Investigating inequality

Civil rights law offers a tool for communities of color trying to stop unequal exposure to pollution. Over and over, people here have tried to get environmental justice.

Decisions on where highways and freeways were built had both immediate and lingering effects in urban areas.

Investigating inequality

This story was published as a partnership between the Center for Public Integrity and Fresnoland When Arlin Benavides Jr. set out to hear residents’ environmental concerns in one of the most marginalized parts of a region facing water scarcity, groundwater contamination, extreme heat and other woes, he wasn’t sure if people would open their doors, […]

This story, the second in a series about soil lead contamination, was originally published by Grist in 2022. On a crisp, fall day in Santa Ana, California, Mary Acosta Rodriguez Martinez Garcia steps forward gingerly, leaning on her cane as she walks to the spot along the railroad tracks that intersect with Santa Ana Boulevard. […]

The main advice given to families threatened by lead exposure in toxic soil — keep your home clean — doesn’t work, studies show.

Want to make a difference? Here are 8 lead contaminating solutions you can do to make the community you live in healthier and safer.

Investigating inequality

As the second winter of the COVID-19 pandemic approached, I journeyed to Blue Gap, Arizona, to at last meet the man whose steady, calm voice on the other end of the phone line had been a constant for me since the start of the global health crisis. I first connected with Earl Tulley in early […]