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Daily Report: Health and Welfare, Environment

National Green Week makes a splash on The I Files

February 4, 2013, 9:05 AM
National Green Week is upon us, offering an opportunity to explore the ways we can make our communities more environmentally friendly and sustainable. With that in mind, we're featuring some great green-themed videos on The I Files, an investigative YouTube channel curated by our parent... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

More couches contain chemicals tied to cancer risk

November 28, 2012, 6:05 AM
Eight out of 10 couches contain flame retardant chemicals that are linked to heightened cancer risk, developmental delays in children or are lacking adequate health information, according to a study released today by UC Berkeley and Duke University researchers. The study also shows an increase... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

Advocates continue battle against flame-retardant chemicals

May 30, 2012, 12:05 AM
After years of failed attempts to regulate flame-retardant chemicals linked to mounting evidence of harm, state legislators and consumer advocates are gearing up to take another look at the risks and benefits. The chemicals have been measured at high levels in some Californians’... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

Report finds fewer unhealthy air days in California

April 20, 2012, 12:05 AM
California air pollution reached unhealthy levels less often in 2011 than a decade ago, according to a report released this week by a state association of regional air district officers. Compared with 2000, there were about 74 percent fewer days of “unhealthy air” statewide... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

Solar rooftops sought in poor communities

April 16, 2012, 12:05 AM
San Diego is home to more than 2,600 solar residential rooftops – more than any other California city – but in the neighboring lower-income community of National City, there are only about a dozen. A bill [PDF] before the California Assembly Committee on... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

Life expectancy varies by ZIP code in San Joaquin Valley

March 9, 2012, 12:05 AM
Where you live can be an indicator of how long you'll live, according to a new study on San Joaquin Valley health. Published by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington, the report found that in counties spanning from Tulare to Stanislaus, life expectancy... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare, Environment

In San Joaquin Valley, poor most affected by environmental hazards

January 5, 2012, 12:05 AM
If New Year’s resolutions could apply to places, perhaps no place is as worthy of concerted change as the San Joaquin Valley. Home to nearly 4 million people, the nation’s breadbasket is described as “a patchwork pattern of separate and unequal places” in a report by the UC... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare, Environment

Californians push for New River cleanup in health plan

October 4, 2011, 12:05 AM
Calexico residents and community advocates will push for greater attention to the New River – considered the country’s most polluted waterway – at a public hearing tomorrow on Border 2020, a new bilateral plan to address the environmental and health problems at the U.S.-Mexico... + read more
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