A giant plume of smoke detached from the Bear Fire in Orville overnight, creating what is known as a pyrocumulus cloud, according to National Weather Service Meteorologist Eric Kurth…
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Central Valley Environmental Justice (EJ) organizations are hard at work advocating for policy change to improve the health and well-being of California’s most vulnerable communities. Learn about their policy priorities for 2020-21 and how scientists and research can help lead to lasting change…
Officials say the skies in the southern part of the Golden State that are engulfed in a thick layer of smoke from the various wildfiresare likely to remain that way for days…
The proposed Environmental Justice for All Act originated in the US House, but is being sponsored in the Senate by Democratic VP nominee Kamala Harris of California. The bill would require professional cosmetic ingredient labeling, already mandated in California, and includes other provisions borrowed from cosmetics reform legislation stalled in Congress…
A coalition of groups advocating for green jobs and other progressive programs protested in front of Congressman Kevin McCarthy’s house in Bakersfield early Friday morning, prompting a response from police…
Diana Vasquez Ballesteros, 34, of Sacramento, has been appointed Deputy Director of Legislation at the California Department of Toxic Substances Control. Vazquez Ballesteros has been a Policy Manager at California Environmental Justice Alliance since 2017…
After years of community members organizing and going to hearing after hearing, the Ventura County Board of Supervisors in an on-line 14-hour final hearing last night voted 3 to 2 to tentatively approve the nation’s first 2500 foot health and safety setback from oil wells as part of their General Plan…
Air quality in Fresno and the central San Joaquin Valley is particularly awful right now. As of Monday morning, the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District is recording particulate levels are higher than Level 5, which means all outdoor activity should be avoided…
With the most important election of our lifetimes fast approaching, now is the time for voters of color to take the lead by electing proven social and environmental justice champions. CEJA Action is endorsing 14 candidates for State Assembly, State Senate and U.S. Congress – and a big YES vote on Propositions 15, 16, 17, 18, 21 and 23 to strengthen civil rights and reinvest billions in environmental justice communities across the state…
Big money from Big Oil and industry-tied unions has helped to kill a legislative effort to create environmental protections for communities living near oil and gas operations in California…