CalEnviroScreen 3.0 provides one clear, accessible, and science-based method for identifying overburdened environmental justice communities or disadvantaged communities and the particular challenges that they face. [More….]
Transformative Climate Communities (TCC) is a groundbreaking new program that will develop comprehensive, cross-cutting, and transformative climate investments at a neighborhood scale to achieve multiple greenhouse gas, public health and economic benefits in our state’s most vulnerable communities. [More….]
The Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice is leading a fight against a new warehouse that would be built 70 feet away from a residential community and less than a tenth of a mile from a high school in the small town of Bloomington in San Bernardino County. [More….]
In Fresno California the city council recently permitted three million square feet of construction in what the California EPA measures as the most environmentally burdened census tract in California. [More….]
San Francisco’s Mission District is the heart of the city’s working-class Latinx community. In the northeast area of the Mission, land use planning policies have prioritized expensive condominium and retail spaces, often pushing out longtime residents and the small locally owned stores that provide income [More….]
Richmond’s story is one of community organizing, vision, and inspiration. In a city that is almost 90 percent people of color, that has faced a legacy of environmental racism, blight, and economic divestment for decades, community groups are building Our Power. This vision centers frontline [More….]
A history of poor and discriminatory land use practices has put the majority of polluting industries in the backyards of the most disenfranchised local communities, right next to homes and schools. Consequently, low-income communities and communities of color are more likely to suffer from exposure [More….]
East Oakland is a vibrant community with a largely African American and Latinx population. It is also a highly industrialized area. The 880 freeway crosses through the heart of the neighborhood, where diesel trucks filled with goods drive to and from the Port of Oakland. [More….]
Fresno and many of California’s agriculturally rich regions are also home to some of the most polluted and impoverished regions of the state. Families are exposed to environmental hazards in their air and water, leaving them with unsafe drinking water, wastewater oozing from dilapidated septic [More….]
Low-income communities and communities of color in the Southern San Joaquin Valley (Kern, Kings, and Tulare counties) are exposed to severe environmental hazards, including toxic pesticides and some of the worst air quality in the nation. More than 90 percent of California’s fracking operations takes [More….]
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