Fresno – California Green Zones: Recent Episodes
None
A small community in South Fresno, represented by Ashley Werner and the Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability, uses the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to stop a large warehouse project that would have threatened the health of its residents. To learn more about a [More....]
Assembly Bill 2447 (Reyes, 2018), the Vulnerable Communities Inclusion Act, sought to ensure that disadvantaged community residents received adequate notice and had opportunities to provide input on CEQA-related projects that could impact their health, housing, and neighborhood quality. Far too often, permitting decisions take place without [More....]
On October 8, 2018, CEJA participated in a panel at the APA CA Conference to reflect upon the first year of implementing SB 1000. Panelists lifted up recent best practices and lessons learned from integrating environmental justice to General Plans across the state. [More....]
In Fresno California the city council recently permitted three million square feet of construction in what the California EPA measures as the most environmentally burdened census tract in California. [More....]
Fresno and many of California’s agriculturally rich regions are also home to some of the most polluted and impoverished regions of the state. Families are exposed to environmental hazards in their air and water, leaving them with unsafe drinking water, wastewater oozing from dilapidated septic [More....]