climate change
U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Someday Need to Drink
By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica Mexico City plans to draw drinking water from a mile-deep aquifer, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. The Mexican effort challenges a key tenet of […]
Latino Children Planting the Future
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco A cool San Francisco Bay morning is warming up on a marshy shore of the Martin Luther King Jr. Shoreline, part of the East Bay Regional […]
Ojo on Ocean Acidification
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco Do you recall acid rain? How about the hole in the ozone layer? There may several among us who may not remember the problem of acid […]
Latinos Getting Fracked?
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco 2012 closed with an interesting note: As reported in this article from Reuters, the term “fracking” was more popular than “climate change” in US online searches. […]
Survey Says: Latinos care about the Environment—what’s the next step?
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco The polling has been clear and consistent over this decade and especially this year: Latinos care about and support a wide range of environmental issues and policies—from […]
As CO2 Increases, So Too Must Latino Voices
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco In talking about dealing with climate change, there are generally two categories: mitigation and adaptation. Mitigation focuses more on reducing or preventing the effects. These are […]
Latin America Green News
By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde de NRDC Chile The Supreme Court ruled this week that the environmental approval for the Pirquenes coal plant in the Biobío Region was illegal, and that […]
John Kerry vs. Susan Rice – The View from Latin America
By Joel Jaeger, New America Media/Council on Hemipheric Affaris U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to nominate a new Secretary of State later this week, as Hillary Clinton intends to […]
Ojo on What Happens with CA Cap-and-Trade
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco One of the recent big environmental news was the successful auctioning of permits under California’s new cap-and-trade system. It is big news because the law and […]
Coal Plants Smothering Communities of Color, Report Finds
By Brett Israel, New America Media/Daily Climate Coal plants place a disproportionate burden on poor and largely minority communities, exposing residents to high levels of pollutants that affect public health, […]