Alejandra Reyes-Velarde

I've made it to Bluesky! Excited to have a place to share my work again. Not excited for the doomscrolling...

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Residents of a polluted California town pinned hopes on new state rules. They're still waiting California's 2015 law promised to protect polluted communities like Kettleman City from cumulative health impacts—but draft rules arrived 7 years late & lack teeth to deny permits, critics say.

A decade after a California law promised better protections for communities impacted by multiple pollution sources, people are still waiting.

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