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Latinos Face Major Risks From Delays Of Air Pollution Rules
Latinos are among those facing the greatest risk from efforts to block the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) updates to health safeguards protecting Americans from ozone, mercury and other dangerous air […]
States With The Most Toxic Air Pollution From Power Plants
By Pete Altman It shouldn’t be hard to understand why we should clean up toxic pollution – including mercury – from power plants. Especially when you consider that half of […]
Save Your Money, Skip “Rise Of Planet Of The Apes”
Imagine, if you will, a drug that could reverse the damage caused by Alzheimer’s. How revolutionary would that be? Now, imagine if that drug went further and boosted your intelligence […]
Disease Clusters Plague U.S. Communities
By Gina Solomon When I was a Clinical Fellow at Harvard in the mid-1990’s, I learned of a major investigation into a childhood leukemia cluster in nearby Woburn, Massachusetts. Twelve […]
Latino Politician Takes Lead On Green Energy Policy
A Latino politician in Texas is taking the lead on green energy policy. Julián Castro, currently in his second term as mayor of San Antonio, a city that’s more than […]
EPA Must Strengthen Smog Standards Or Risk Health Of Latinos
By Adrianna Quintero By 2050, one in four Americans will be Hispanic, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In the last decade, the total Latino population in the U.S. grew at a rate […]
Effects Of The Proposed Federal Budget Cuts On Latinos
[Editor’s Note: The Latino Print Network recently sent out an email newsletter detailing the effects of the 2011 proposed federal budget cuts on Latinos, we reproduce that information here.] Cuts […]
Why The EPA Is Important For Latino Families
The Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, has long protected the health and well-being of all Americans, particularly Latino families. Unfortunately, conservative politicians are leading efforts to attack, defund, and in some […]
Mi (My) Doctor and the Affordable Care Act
[Editor’s Note: Juan Flores is Executive Director of La Fe Policy Research and Education Center, in San Antonio, TX.] by Juan Flores My wife and I recently changed doctors and […]
Latino Fatalism May Cause Cancer Deaths
The International Journal of Behavioral Medicine is set to release a study showing that the Catholic-ish belief that things are in God’s hands may lead Latinas to believe that cancer […]