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
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
"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.
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.
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.
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
Seventy-three organizations sent a letter to Governor Newsom and the California Air Resources Board today criticizing its plan for reaching carbon neutrality, saying the plan is a setback for the state and the world.