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The Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry of California, along with its affiliated organizations, has worked with congregations and UUs to advocate for safe, clean, affordable water sufficient to meet daily needs. In the face of significant corporate opposition, our coalition passed the Human Right to Water Act and is currently working on implementing it.

UUJM is also focusing work on climate justice and regulation of the oil and gas industry. 2016 provides the opportunity for our members to advance the "Porter Ranch Package", a set of bills crafted in response to the horrific gas leak in southern California that harmed thousands of families. Check out our legislative engagements to learn more and support this important legislation.

Please visit click here to learn more about what UUJM is doing with environmental justice and to get involved.

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    Santa Cruz Sentinel

    First, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would oversee site cleanup project for the Superfund site. You have to have synergy for industrial," Caruso said of the Kings Village Road property. "You can't just have one piece of land as industrial and nothing that supports it. When you have technology like you have in Silicon Valley or Santa Cruz, you have to have synergy of people that support your industry.

  • 172 Degree 'Feels Like' Swing in Just 6 Months

    Star Tribune

    Note that widespread Excessive Heat Warnings are in effect along with Heat Advisories. Widespread heat will grip the region with record temperatures possible. High: 79. TUESDAY: Comfy temps and humidity.

  • A somewhat soggy Saturday ahead, but heat and humidity break

    Star Tribune

    Note that widespread Excessive Heat Warnings are in effect along with Heat Advisories. Widespread heat will grip the region with record temperatures possible. However, folks across the Plains and Upper Midwest still see (on average) a fair amount of tornadoes.

  • 20-50-100 Years Ago -- July 19

    Foster's Daily Democrat

    A well-known farmer stated yesterday that if the rain continued for a few days the wheat crop loss throughout the county he ventured would probably be $100,000. The drought has been caused by La Nina and La Nina is still going strong, said Philip Poole, senior meteorologist for the National Weather Service. His hayfields have burned up and the drought is as bad as the worst drought he has ever endured, said Harold Lenhart, a dairy farmer on Old Frederick Road.

  • Extreme heat may be in Augusta's future, report suggests

    The Augusta Chronicle

    ...degrees heat index." By reducing emissions to slow future global warming by 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century, which the study terms rapid action, Augusta would avoid the highest extreme heat index days, with Jenkins and Screven counties averaging one per year. It would also reduce the number of days where the heat index reaches at least 105 by more than half, from 74 on average to 31 for Augusta and from nearly 90 to 34 or 35 for Jenkins and Screven,...

  • CLIMATE CHANGE: Florida should prepare for months of 105 heat index temps

    The Palm Beach Post

    ...heat index days under the best case scenario. "The type of heat we will experience in the future is above and beyond what Floridians are used to today," said Kristy Dahl, senior climate scientist at the Massachusetts-based Union of Concerned Scientists. "If you look at the averages nationwide, Florida as a whole will have the highest number of days with heat indexes above 105 by late century if we do nothing." The study evaluates the number of high heat index days based on levels...

  • Plan to sustain Santa Cruz County drinking water unveiled

    Santa Cruz Sentinel

    ...drinking water supplies for mid-Santa Cruz County by 2040. The effort, mirrored up and down the state, was born out of 2014 legislation prompted by California's historic drought. Of Santa Cruz County's three major groundwater basins, the midcounty basin, designated by the state as "critically overdrafted," covers water supplies for customers from Aptos to Santa Cruz and includes the Purisima Formation and Aromas Red Sands aquifers. The Santa Cruz Mid-County Groundwater Sustainability...

  • To help alleviate damage caused by flooding, Pa. officials ask for 'eyes on the ground'

    St. Cloud Times

    Tom Wolf's proposed Restore Pennsylvania plan aims to assist local endeavors to improve waterways and other environmental initiatives. Depending on what kind of work is needed, permitting is required, Lehman said. Those permits, he said, are issued in "a matter of hours" after an event.

  • As Chicago temperatures climb, a new bill aims to create heat-related workplace standards

    Chicago Tribune

    But a new bill aims to change that by having companies abide by a federal heat standard designed to protect employees. Last week, Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., introduced a bill that would require employers to provide workers paid water breaks in cool places, access to water and heat-related training. Before the start of the workday, managers go over tasks and the potential hazards associated with them.

  • Reclamation: Water supply to hold at 67% for junior rights in Yakima Basin

    Yakima Herald-Republic

    The next Yakima water supply meeting is scheduled Aug. 1. Senior water rights holders will receive a full allotment. Water shortages in the basin are shared equally by those with junior water rights, which represent over half of the water rights in the basin. Gov. Jay Inslee has declared drought emergencies in 27 watersheds, including the Upper and Lower Yakima and the Naches.

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