This article/video discusses connecting Latino communities to climate change action: One woman’s story. Linda Escalante is linking lawmakers to people on the front lines of environmental problems.
As a child, Linda Escalante moved from Bogota, Colombia to Burbank, California. There, she and her mom lived in a neighborhood stuck between a freeway, an airport, and a toxic waste cleanup site.
Escalante: “This is kind of the story about a lot of folks in my community. You have to live close to the sources of pollution in order to afford housing, and of course nowadays it’s just gotten worse and worse.”