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California’s Environmental Justice Advisory Committee opposes carbon trading

In August 2016, California passed a new Senate Bill: SB 32…

Clearing the Air: PM2.5 and Attacks on the Clean Air Act

There is a planning process underway that many agencies and groups and individuals are involved with to reduce PM 2.5, our wintertime pollution, and there’s also some concerning attacks on the Clean Air Act…

The Climate Movement goes to War with Trump

The first days of the Trump administration can only be described as a full frontal attack on the climate…

Environmental Groups Say California’s Climate Program Has Not Helped Them

In the Wilmington neighborhood of Los Angeles, residential streets dead end at oil refineries…

Development Director: California Environmental Justice Alliance

The Development Director will develop and implement strategies for fund development at CEJA…

California has its own Flint, needs funding for safe drinking water

Almost 300 communities in California are not meeting safe drinking water standards…

Small community is one of many grappling with big water problems

Other communities are tackling water problems too, like Kettleman City, California, which has been dealing with unsafe drinking water for years…

Lawmakers use threat of Trump to pitch carbon taxes

Michael Barrett, a Democratic Massachusetts state senator, reckons that few of his colleagues had ever heard of a state carbon fee when he first proposed it in 2013…

Living in poverty, pollution can change everything – down to the molecular level

The state Environmental Protection Agency announced west Fresno is the most environmentally, socially and economically vulnerable place in California…

California has its own Flint, needs funding for safe drinking water

Almost 300 communities in California are not meeting safe drinking water standards…