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Wife's Illness Spurs Recent Immigrant to Environmental Activism

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The unincorporated community of Mecca in Riverside County struggles with a host of environmental problems, from arsenic in the well water to toxic dump sites. For years after moving to Mecca from Mexicali, Mexico, Eduardo Guevara wasn't particularly worked up about it. But after his wife was hospitalized twice for asthma, Guevara was determined to get some answers.

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