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Californians push for New River cleanup in health plan

Written By Bernice Yeung – California Watch – October 4, 2011

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 border.

Crowdsourcing helps tackle environmental injustice in California's Imperial Valley

The border city of Calexico, Calif. -- population 27,000; 95 percent Latino; 25 percent poverty rate -- is the kind of place where environmental laws are enforced last, if at all.

In Memoriam - Fred Cagle

We at the DPC were greatly saddened by the unexpected passing of our longtime friend and colleague, and former member of our board of directors, Dr. Fred Cagle.