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SB 1000 Implementation Toolkit: Fact Sheets (NEW)
Check out our newest fact sheets on SB 1000 to learn best practices for implementing the law. [More….]
POLICY
CEQA
CEQA and Housing Development in California
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) is an important tool for advancing environmental justice (EJ) and protecting the rights of communities disproportionately impacted by pollution and poverty in our state. While CEQA “streamlining” policies have been viewed as the best way to address our state’s housing shortage, such ideas are based upon misleading narratives and misinformation. [More….]
Los Angeles
AB 1628: Redefining Environmental Justice for California
The people that are most equipped to transform toxic hotspots into healthy neighborhoods are the those who live in these areas that face these problems on a daily basis. Despite this, many frontline environmental justice (EJ) communities are often excluded and are denied from having a say in key environmental and land use decisions that impact their health. [More….]
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SB 1000: A Community Workshop for San Joaquin County
The San Joaquin SB 1000 Community Workshop provided residents and planners with resources on planning for environmental justice and updating General Plans according to the law. [More….]
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When David Beats Goliath: The Story of a Community that Came Together to Beat Big Oil
In July 2018, the City Council in Arvin—an agricultural town nestled in the San Joaquin Valley—voted unanimously to update their oil and gas ordinance for the first time in half a century. [More….]
Fresno
SB 1000’s Lessons Learned
On October 8, 2018, CEJA participated in a panel at the APA CA Conference to reflect upon the first year of implementing SB 1000. Panelists lifted up recent best practices and lessons learned from integrating environmental justice to General Plans across the state. [More….]
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Indirect Source Rule a Big Step toward Clean Air and Zero Emissions
By Andrea Vidaurre, CCAEJ Policy Analyst & Community Organizer For decades, disadvantaged communities in the South Coast Basin have been plagued by pollution coming from commercial activities at warehouses, rail yards, seaports and airports. Diesel truck, train, and cargo ship emissions are concentrated at these [More….]
POLICY
Transforming Our Communities Requires Protecting Our Climate Investments
Transformative Climate Communities (TCC) is a groundbreaking new program that ensures that some of the communities most impacted by pollution can receive investments to dramatically uplift and improve their neighborhoods. [More….]
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Start Here, Start Now: EJ Assessment of San Diego Climate Action Plan
Environmental Health Coalition and social justice leaders released a comprehensive assessment of City of San Diego’s Climate Action Plan that investigates how effectively the City invested in low-income communities of color. [More….]
POLICY
Arvin City Council Unanimously Votes to Protect Its Citizens and Regulate Oil and Gas
“It was a five year campaign and we used every strategy we knew: community organizing, legal advocacy, coalition building, communications and 501c4 electoral” said Caroline Farrell, Executive Director of the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment (CRPE). [More….]