Southern California Campaigns and Projects

Southern California Regional Efforts

AQMD Accountability
CBE advocates for strong environmental justice rules and regulations at the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD), the government agency responsible for air quality in the region. CBE monitors proposed rules and helps to shape and create rules that will protect the health of the most polluted communities in the region.

GREEN LA
CBE works in coalition with dozens of environmental justice and environmental organizations and the City of Los Angeles to create and implement a green agenda for the largest city in California. CBE provides leadership for the coalition, in particular the effort to address "cumulative impacts" of environmental pollution in the communities throughout the city.

LA Apollo Alliance
CBE is a part of the leadership of The Los Angeles Apollo Alliance project initiated by Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE), one of the City's outstanding social justice organizations.  LA Apollo is a component of the national Apollo project whose goal is to create good paying "green jobs" for working class communities throughout the US.  LA Apollo is made up of twenty environmental, social justice, environmental justice, and labor organizations.  The project's initial goal (over the next three years) is to create 2000 good paying, union, "green jobs" for residents of LA's communities of color, while helping to improve the city's environment.  More than 5000 residents from South and East Los Angeles have signed petitions in support for the Apollo project, and the project received the enthusiastic endorsement of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, City Council President Eric Garcetti, and City Councilmember Herb Wesson when the project was launched at a meeting of more than 500 people on August 16, 2006.