At the end of the 31st annual Hispanic Heritage month, Latinos in the US are still waiting to celebrate a crucial victory --getting rid of the toxic water that poisons so many of our communities. This problem is nationwide, but as far as we are concerned, the situation is...

The old dirty energy industry, especially coal and oil, can count on an army of expert cooks who have concocted some of the dirtiest political campaigns in this country's history.

The black fingerprints of these chefs of political manipulation are all over Washington's white marble buildings. And their most recent...

During the first months of the Obama administration, we have observed a 180-degree turn in the country's environmental direction.

We have gone from disregard and neglect of those communities punished by environmental degradation, from the close ties with the energy industry and other polluters, to restoring and cleaning the effects...

Mariana Chew-Sánchez has been the target of a toxic bombardment that has lasted much of her life.

When she was very young, from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico she could see, with bitterness and impotence, the cloud of yellowish black smoke that day and night would travel from the stack of the...

When distributing Mexico's portion of the "blessings" of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the town of La Gloria (Heaven) got the hellish part of the deal.

In that town in Veracruz State arrived a nasty gift brought by the U.S.-based multinational Smithfield Farms, which took full...

The jingling gets louder and louder as you approach any of the four petrochemical plants that surround Cesar Chavez High School. When you arrive at any of them, you realize the jingling comes from the hundreds of aluminum tags attached to the maze of pipes making up the facilities.

Ship Master Joseph Hazelwood had had too many drinks that night and had gone to bed, leaving the huge vessel in the very tired, inexperienced hands of Third Mate Gregory Cousins.

The Exxon Valdez, loaded with 53 million gallons of crude, had to avoid the icebergs that were blocking...

"May you live in interesting times," says the Chinese curse. And these times of ours can be called anything but boring.

The worst economic crisis in 80 years, the melt down of financial markets and a recession that is obliterating millions of jobs throughout the world have infused fear in...

Just as a mother makes her child wash his mouth out after telling a lie, one of the worst ecological catastrophes in our country's history is making the coal industry wash off its face, which is full of soot.

Last year, this industry spent $45 million in a deceiving...

Dear President-Elect Obama:

My daughter has already written her letter to Santa. She's been well behaved all year long, so we are sure she will see her wishes come true.

But Santa comes only on Christmas, and what I am going to ask you, unfortunately, can only be achieved after...

Just like in the Bible, our country is coming out of a dream, or rather a nightmare, in which we saw seven thin cows eating seven fat cows. The biblical fable, which announces seven years of prosperity, could well be suggesting that the end of the nightmare has a date,...

Anyone who has visited New Mexico and has seen how the setting sun caresses the Sangre de Cristo Mountains with a reddish cloak will instantly realize why this beautiful corner of the planet is called the Land of Enchantment.

But as we end this Hispanic Heritage Month, this unique state...

Should the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) change its name to the Cronyism Protection Agency? It wouldn't be a bad idea considering the string of scandals that are shaking an entity that determines the well-being on an entire nation.

Created in 1970 to protect "human health and secure the...

The worst thing you can do when you are in a hole is keep on drilling. The country is in a hole called energy crisis and oil addiction. But Senator John McCain and President Bush are planning to keep on drilling.

On June 17, the same day his campaign premiered...