The Latest by Irene Vilar

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Irene Vilar is the founder of The Americas for Conservation and the Arts, the mother organization of The Americas Latino Festival and the first nonprofit literary agency in the U.S., Vilar Creative Agency, dedicated to the dissemination of minority literature of the Americas.

66 percent of Latinos live in areas where the air is not up to the federal government’s safe air quality standards.
July 31, 2015

Latino Communities Demand Congress, EPA Step Up to Fight Asthma

Latino community advocates visited Washington, D.C. to urge members of Congress and the EPA to craft a strong Clean Power Plan to cut air pollution.