Over the last year, nearly $300 million dollars in proceeds generated under California’s carbon reduction law were directed to disadvantaged communities across the state as a result of SB 535 (de León, 2012), one of CA’s landmark climate change bills. Under SB 535, at least 25% of the program’s proceeds (known as CA Climate Investments) are earmarked for diverse projects to benefit these communities such as access to electric vehicles and cleaner freight, rooftop solar systems, affordable housing developments near transit, and urban forestry…
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The California Environmental Protection Agency is now accepting applications from eligible community-based nonprofit groups and federally recognized tribal governments to support environmental justice-related projects across California. More than $1 million is available from the Environmental Justice Small Grants Program, double last year’s $500,000 in funding and up from $250,000 in 2013…
Sixteen years ago a group of California parents sued state regulators for failing to protect their children from hazardous pesticides. The parents showed that their children – who were Latino – were more likely than their white counterparts to be exposed to pesticides at school.
More than a decade later, without involving the impacted children and their families, the lawsuit was settled by state and federal officials. The only result was one new air monitor near one school, without anything more comprehensive or meaningful for schoolchildren across the state…
Water — or the periodic lack thereof — isn’t the biggest threat to the San Joaquin Valley’s economic vitality. It’s air quality…
The California legislature has sent a bill to Governor Jerry Brown’s desk that aims to extend the benefits of solar energy to communities that often have no access to clean energy technologies.
Assembly Bill 693 would create the Multi-Family Affordable Housing Solar Roofs program, which would be authorized to spend $100 million a year for at least 10 years to install solar panels on 210,000 affordable housing units in the Golden State…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has tightened its restriction on ground-level ozone standards, and while that may be good news for public health in the San Joaquin Valley and elsewhere, the change met complaints from industry, which sees it as burdensome and a threat to businesses and jobs…
CCEJN sent the following letter to Governor Brown asking for support for AB 1071:…
On Friday, October 2, 2015, CCEJN submitted the following letter to Governor Brown asking for his signature on AB 1420:…
Federal leaders on Thursday announced their most-protective national ozone standard, saying California alone would save up to $2.1 billion annually in health care after 2025…
Bulmario Tapia Madrigal doesn’t want to shower in a stream of dirt. He doesn’t want to cook with bottled water, haul a bucketful to flush the toilet, or wonder if he has enough water to clean the diabetes wounds on his feet. But since his well went dry three months ago, that’s how life has been.