Campaign Updates
How to Save Money While Energy Costs Spike
The soaring cost of energy has been impossible to ignore this past winter. We’ve seen energy bills reaching $300, $500, and even $900 all over news headlines, social media, and of course, in the mailboxes of families who are already experiencing financial stress from rising inflation and housing costs. The price of natural gas, the fossil fuel that powers heaters … Read More
OUT NOW: 2022 Legislative Scorecard
Big Progress, Serious Concerns
Ten years after CEJA released our first environmental justice scorecard, we have seen incredible progress in lawmakers’ awareness of environmental and climate justice issues. In 2022, grassroots organizing and advocacy propelled four of our priority bills onto the governor’s desk, and three were signed into law. But major challenges continued. As the embattled oil and gas … Read More
Thank you for building power with us in 2022.
In 2022, we won significant policy victories. Thank you for taking action with CEJA this year.
Press Release: CARB Votes to Approve State Climate Plan; The Catch: Billions in Anticipated Subsidies for Carbon Capture Schemes
Board votes on final scoping plan, including wins and losses that will include billions in subsidies for carbon capture and sequestration.
PRESS RELEASE: EJ Groups Say California Climate Plan Shows Progress, but Carbon Capture Schemes Derail Meaningful Climate Action
"We applaud the call for an inter-agency process to coordinate the phasedown of oil refining and extraction in California. However, the plan still paves the way for billions in subsidies for oil and gas executives by using carbon capture schemes...." - Mabel Tsang, CEJA Political Dir.
Take action with us: call Governor Newsom.
This is the final push: join us to urge Governor Newsom and the state air and climate regulator to prioritize a fossil fuel phaseout and no CCUS in the state climate plan. CCS Letter to DOE Inspector General
We are writing on behalf of 56 organizations and researchers to request an investigation of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory advocacy effort promoting carbon capture to California regulators, legislators, schools, and community groups, and the funding arrangement for that campaign. Press Release: Over Two Hundred Californians rally at CARB board meeting
Working families, advocates say state draft plan is grossly out of touch with lived reality in communities that experience suffocating pollution and doubles down on fossil fuels at a time when California needs real climate solutions Press Release: 128 scientists and academics urge Governor Newsom, CARB to fix flawed Scoping Plan
“We cannot afford to gamble on our future”: Experts call for plan that reflects the latest science; disregard unproven technologies. 