Collaboration and compromise at the borderlands: The Cal/EPA's pilot project for the new river

Environmental Justice

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 21-25

  Dicochea, Perlita R ^a  

^a SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORDER REGION; DRAINAGE NETWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HAZARDOUS WASTE; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE; RESEARCH WORK; RIVER POLLUTION; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; STAKEHOLDER; WATER RESOURCE; WATERSHED;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(STT) MEXICO]; CALIFORNIA; IMPERIAL VALLEY; MEXICALI VALLEY; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NEW RIVER [UNITED STATES]; SALTON SEA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857308142     PISSN: 19394071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/env.2010.0025     Document Type: Article

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3. Latino Legislative Caucus of the State of California Memo (2003).
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10. Document available at < http://www.calepa.ca.gov/EnvJustice/ > (accessed August 1, 2010).
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15. Document available at , 3 (accessed August 1, 2010).
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29. "Cal/EPA Environmental Justice Action Plan SWRCB New River (Calexico) Pilot Project Update," (April 16, 2007).