Mark Lopez
mark! Lopez is the executive director of East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice (EYCEJ), an environmental health and justice non-profit organization that represents the communities around the City of Commerce and Long Beach. mark! was this year’s winner of The Goldman Environmental Prize, which honors grassroots environmental heroes from the world’s six inhabited continental regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands & Island Nations, North America, and South & Central America. He recently persuaded the state of California to provide comprehensive lead testing and cleanup of East Los Angeles homes contaminated by a battery smelter that had polluted the community for over three decades.
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Clean energy finance passes fossil fuels for the first time, but little reaches low-income...
Oil Change International and Friends of the Earth U.S. report G20 and development bank clean energy finance averaged $52.7 billion a year from 2023 to 2025
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“It’s hard to imagine that in America today, people are living without basics like safe and reliable water service.”
What The Media Should Know About Gun Background Checks
Although the details of the plan have not yet been released, several outlets are reporting that the Obama administration will address what is known as the “gun show loophole” or “private sales loophole.”