Campaigns

CBE recognizes that the low-income communities of color suffer a wide range of socio-economic problems because of racism and institutional discrimination. 

Our campaigns broadly call for addressing the cumulative impacts of pollution in our communities, recognizing the mobile and stationary sources of pollution, as well as multiple social stress factors, such as poverty, violence and lack of access to services, that make low-income communities particularly vulnerable.  We target individual facilities as well as governmental agencies to win pollution reductions and create policies to better protect environmental health and increase public participation. Our focus continues to be on air quality throughout California. We are attempting to broaden the framework from facility-to-facility fights to community-centered policy making, such as in our work to shape the City of Richmond’s General Plan in Northern California, and our efforts to pass a cumulative impacts policy in the City of Los Angeles.

We are continuing to work on reducing pollution from oil refineries as well as push for stronger regulations both at the Southern California and Bay Area Air Quality Management Districts on stationary sources in each region.

Through CBE’s campaigns, our goals are to end the contamination of our target communities, to improve public health, to develop the capacity of low-income people of color communities to challenge the power structure in order to shift the balance of power, and to build a solid movement for environmental justice as one important component of the movement for social justice.

For more detailed discriptions of our regional compaigns, please visit our Northern California and Southern California campaign pages.