Southeast LA

Our 710 campaign is a direct challenge to the ongoing legacy of systemic inequities embedded in transportation infrastructure. For over 20 years, members of the I-710 South community have organized and mobilized hundreds to defeat a freeway expansion proposal that would harm their communities and have transformed it into an investment plan that includes projects aimed at reclaiming our right to clean air and safe mobility. We continue to fight for community leadership in the decision-making process to ensure these projects uplift and value our health.

Everyone has the right to work, play, and live without fear of toxic exposures. Our Exide campaign pushes for industrial accountability, tenant protections, a just community cleanup, and the transformation of state agencies.

Our U-Haul campaign fights back against the toxic redevelopment at the former Central Metal site and calls for a community-led vision for the land. Inequitable and discriminatory land use and zoning processes must end to protect current and future communities from multiple sources of pollution.

Stay Housed LA is a partnership between Los Angeles County, the City of Los Angeles and local community and legal service providers. Together, we provide the residents of Los Angeles County, from Lancaster to Long Beach, with information and resources to keep people in their homes.

CBE has taken the lead in advancing the community’s vision for park equity in the cities of Huntington Park, Walnut Park, Maywood, and Cudahy. Together, we are working to rectify disparities in park access and bring more green spaces to Southeast LA, empowering residents to re-imagine and actively shape the landscape of the place they call home.

We have a vision to transition off of dirty and dangerous gas plants in California, and to create a regenerative and just clean energy economy. Regenerate California is building a powerful movement to power up clean energy and power down dirty gas, and is supported by many environmental justice organizations, environmental groups, social justice organizations, and clean tech groups. We represent impacted communities throughout California from San Diego to Northern California.

In 2021, we conducted a tap water study throughout homes in different parts of SELA. This was a scientific and community research collaboration between the Public Health Institute, UCSF, and CBE focused on potential contaminants in drinking water in California that can cause breast cancer. In the study we found that 89% of the water tests in SELA contained PFAS, including PFOA & PFOS. This is also an area that has elevated breast cancer rates. We are still in the works to find solutions for water justice in SELA.

CBE is a community partner of the SOMAH Program, supporting our Southeast LA affordable housing tenants, property owners, and solar job seekers. Through SOMAH, we aim to bring the environmental, economic, and employment benefits of solar energy to Environmental Justice communities.