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….]
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….]
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….]
In addition to supporting neighborhood-based Green Zone strategies, the Green Zones Initiative believes that effective and community-driven solutions for environmental justice should also be advanced at the statewide level. In 2016, CEJA succeeded in getting two groundbreaking Green Zones bills, AB 2722 (Burke) and SB [More….]
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