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Bill introduced to reduce water pollution at U.S.-Mexico border KGTV and last updated 2021-03-03 19:49:14-05 SAN DIEGO (CNS) -- A bill aimed at addressing pollution along the U.S.- Mexico border and improving water quality in the Tijuana and New rivers was introduced Wednesday. The Border Water Quality Restoration and Protection Act would designate the Environmental Protection Agency as the lead agency coordinating federal, state and local agencies to build and maintain infrastructure projects aimed at reducing pollution along the border. It would also require the EPA and other agencies to id...

SD County Declares TJ River Valley Pollution a Public Health Crisis By Sandra G. Leon The San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution today that declares the pollution and sewage entering the US from the Tijuana River Valley to be a public health crisis for the South County region. The resolution, offered by newly-elected Supervisor Nora Vargas, calls attention to the health concerns related to toxic sewage and pollution that spills over the border and contaminates San Diego beaches as far north as La Jolla. “In declaring pollution at the Tijuana River Valley as a public hea...

Sewage spilling into the ocean from the Tijuana River Valley forced the closure of beaches from the border through Imperial Beach on Wednesday.

Editor-at-Large The recently signed international trade agreement between the US, Mexico, and Canada included funding to help address raw sewage spilling into San Diego’s waters from Mexico. President Trump signed the new US Mexico Canada Agreement, called USMCA, on January 29, after nearly a year of negotiations between the three countries. The USMCA replaces NAFTA, passed in 1992, as the binding trade agreement between the three countries of North America. Among the many international issues addressed in the agreement were environmental problems like the Mexican sewage flow across the bor...

Tension among members of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors sometimes reached a fever pitch in 2020. Faced with a global pandemic and a divisive election year that would determine the political balance of the board, disagreements among the county’s five supervisors often played out in public. Despite those conflicts, the board was able to navigate some of its biggest challenges in 2020, including becoming one of the first counties in the country to declare a local emergency in response to COVID-19 in February and later passing a $6.5 billion annual budget — the largest in county ...