Northern California Campaigns and Projects

Oakland

CBE is launching a new program area in East Oakland's Hegenberger Corridor focusing on the environmental health and equity aspects of a 10-year redevelopment initiative in Oakland.

Hegenberger Organizing

CBE will focus on building a grassroots base of members from the Hegenberger area to raise awareness and create dialogue around exposure to multiple pollution sources and other environmental justice issues in East Oakland.

Together with allies from various social and environmental justice organizations, we will be organizing to address environmental, transportation and economic injustices in East Oakland with an eye towards winning local and regional regulation that protects East Oakland residents from toxic air pollution from mobile and stationary sources that result from increased commercial and industrial activities in the Hegenberger Corridor.

CARB Micro-Study

As part of our work to move towards environmental justice in Oakland, CBE is also leading a community-based study to identify pollution sources that fall below the radar screen of regulators and are not controlled or monitored and to estimate the current level of pollution burden on Hegenberger residents. This study is being carried out in collaboration with UC Santa Cruz's Center for Justice, Tolerance & Community, Brown University and Occidental College.

We will partner with residents in the Hegenberger Corridor in designing the study and collecting and interpreting data in order to transform community knowledge into effective documentation of cumulative impacts (the combination of exposure to multiple sources of pollution) and environmental injustice. This information will be used to assist regulatory agencies and public officials in making informed and just decision about siting facilities or monitoring and controlling existing facilities in the East Oakland and other overburdened communities throughout California.