Consuelo Ramirez News Today

Ten California cities in the Bay Area will receive federal grants to plant, maintain and restore trees to increase the green canopy in poorer urban areas. Oakland and San Jose will receive $8 million and $6.6 million, respectively.

On the block where Consuelo Ramirez and her four children live in Oakland’s flatlands, only a single scruffy tree grows between the sidewalk and the street. A…

Trees are often sparse in disadvantaged neighborhoods and communities of color, partly as a result of government 'redlining' policies dating back to the 1930s.