Greg Loarie, Attorney, California Office: “Parents and teachers certainly have a right to know when toxic pesticides are being sprayed right next to their schools, and this process needs to be public and needs to be meaningful. What we really want, at the end of the day, is we want the poisoning to stop. We…
Pajaro Valley Federation of Teachers, Safe Ag Safe Schools, Center for Farmworker Families, Monterey Bay Central Labor Council, and Californians for Pesticide Reform petition for judicial review of six permits allowing the use of highly toxic, restricted pesticides near three schools in the Pajaro Valley area of Monterey County.
Adrian Martinez, Attorney, Right to Zero: “We’ve got to eliminate our reliance on combustion. The program as designed will continue to provide lucrative incentives for combustible fuels well into the future. The stakes are very, very high.”
With the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, California would be locked in to waste $27 billion in climate dollars on dirty fuels over the next decade. It’s up to Governor Newsom to fix it.
On behalf of Center for Biological Diversity, Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment, Central California Environmental Justice Network, Central Valley Air Quality Coalition, and Sierra Club, we are writing to submit the following comments regarding the Draft Environmental Impact Report for the Carbon TerraVault I Project for carbon capture and storage in the Elk Hills oil field. These comments are offered to ensure that Kern County complies with the California Environmental Quality Act and CEQA Guidelines in its consideration of the CTV I Project.
Firenze Rodríguez is a senior litigation assistant based out of the California regional office, where they provide litigation support to the office’s attorneys. Prior to joining Earthjustice, Firenze worked as a litigation paralegal at Powers Taylor LLP, a plaintiff’s medical malpractice firm in Dallas, Texas. Firenze is a NALA Certified Paralegal (CP) and holds an…
The California State Assembly Select Committee on Ports and Goods Movement misses the mark by convening hearings on the impact of freight while focusing almost exclusively on industry needs.
Adrian Martinez, Attorney, California Office: “The plan to meet our clean air standards relied on these faith-based assumptions that we’ll figure out how to reduce the pollution at a later time. And what ended up happening is we never figured it out.”
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