What’s New

Nasty Surprise for Richmond

[Blog] Air quality regulators have been allowing trains to import explosive crude oil into Richmond, CA.

Finance Associate

[Job Posting] CBE seeks a well-organized, self-motivated individual in our LA office with proven skills to cover a wide range of day to day office responsibilities… Read more.

Chevron Richmond Project Emissions List

[Fact sheet] List of air emissions that Chevron’s Richmond refinery project could increase if mitigation is not required according to Chevron’s revised Draft EIR. Read more.

How Many Bodies Do You Want Cremated Everyday in Your Neighborhood?

New blog post by Shana Lazerow.

Fresh off the blog press!

[Blog posts] Check out our two new blog posts by Staff Attorney, Shana Lazerow, about recent decisions by state officials that promises to harm air quality and our health. Read more.

Homes Near Battery Plant Exposed to Elevated Lead Levels

Exide Technologies has until March 21 to come up with a plan to protect children and pregnant women in the area. See the news segment.

New Fact Sheet on Tar Sands Impacts

[Fact sheet] Higher-sulfur crude oil can increase refinery sulfur corrosion beyond already dangerous levels, causing explosions and fires. Read more.

Exide sues SCAQMD regulators…

[News] Exide, the battery recycler whose emissions have stirred public concerns about health impacts, has filed a lawsuit in LA Superior Court to have a recently-passed air quality rule scrubbed. Read more.

Learn about the I-710 Corridor

Find out about the potential health impacts of the I-710 expansion project and opportunities to realize the communities vision for the region. Go to the KCET site.

A Message From CBE’s New Executive Director

I am humbled to be named Executive Director of CBE and am honored by the confidence that the board and staff have shown in me during this transition. As a long-time community member and activist, I have closely followed and long admired CBE’s rich history of fighting to improve the realities of folks in low-income communities and communities of color. It is with great enthusiasm that I am joining the CBE family to continue this work.

In this new role, I hope to build upon the my experience in movement-building for environmental justice and social change. Over the last 20 years of community organizing, I have had the pleasure of struggling and working with activists and organizers throughout the country in service of racial, educational, environmental and economic justice. I have also worked to expand immigrant and worker rights in our communities.

While serving as Director of The Coalition for Educational Justice (CEJ), I worked with our staff, members and allies to improve the educational experience and environment of young people of color in Los Angeles and throughout California. Later, as the Director of Organizing at the Sierra Club, I led organizing efforts throughout the country to challenge the extraction, export and burning of fossil fuels, protect and create access to public lands, protect endangered species, and promote clean and renewable energy development. During my time at Sierra Club, I worked with our members, staff, and allies to demand that people in low-income communities and communities of color have access to clean and renewable energy industry jobs and careers.

While I have embraced the challenges of fundraising, planning, and leading staff, the most exciting part of my work has always been leadership development. Helping young people of color become organizers and grow to be leaders in their own communities for justice inspires me and guides the work that I do-work that I looking forward to continuing at CBE. I also look forward to collaborating with CBE’s board, staff, members and network of partners on advancing our mission and moving closer to our vision.

Byron Ramos Gudiel

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