The Kettleman City parties negotiated for seven months. The 2016 settlement agreement with California’s Environmental Protection Agency and the state Department of Toxic Substances Control — DTSC for ...

Reporting from Kettleman City, Calif. — When environmental activists began a survey of birth defects in this small migrant farming town halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, the results ...

In a development that both sides are calling “historic,” state agencies and environmental justice groups settled a civil rights complaint objecting to how Kettleman City residents were treated ...

Blumenfeld said the EPA’s intervention in Kettleman City underlines the agency’s commitment to, as he put it, “revolutionize the way we do business” by channeling resources into “often ...

KETTLEMAN CITY — Five babies with cleft palates or other grave disabilities were born over a 15-month span in this small farming community off Interstate 5. ... Environmental-justice groups, ...

Kettleman City ranks in the 92nd percentile for environmental vulnerability according to California’s Environmental Protection Agency mapping tool, highlighting its disproportionate pollution burden.

Ivan Hernandez, 1, has undergone two surgeries after being born with a cleft palate. Hernandez was among five babies born with cleft palates in the tiny San Joaquin Valley, California, community ...

The documentary focuses on Kettleman City, CA, ... The student filmmakers made “Environmental Justice” as a project for Saratoga High School’s Media Arts Program, ...

People in the Central Valley town of Kettleman City have had arsenic-tainted tap water for years. Travelers on I-5 may also be drinking it when they stop there for fast food.

People for Clean Air and Water, a group of Kettleman City residents, and Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice said last week at a news conference before the lawsuit was filed that the ...

Next City’s Top Environmental & Energy Justice Stories of 2024. ... The Decades-Long Fight To Protect Kettleman City. In June 13, 2013, Waste Management’s 1,600-acre Kettleman Hills Facility’s recent ...