East Oakland Community Organizer (Deadline Friday Aug, 30): The Community Organizer position will be responsible for executing our organizing and outreach plans to build CBE’s base through strategies of building healthier and greener communities. Read more.

CBE, Earthjustice and Sierra Club challenge Bay Area transit agencies for failing to protect the health of vulnerable communities along the Bay Area’s transportation corridors, for failing to ensure access to affordable housing for Bay Area residents, and for failing to adequately address the displacement of low income communities and communities of color. Read the press release here. Read the legal petition here.

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[full report] The State’s Interagency Working Group on Refinery Safety released its draft report outlining steps and recommendations to improve public and worker safety at and near the state’s oil refineries.

Communities on the frontlines of the impacts of climate change are all too aware of the urgency President Obama articulated in framing the Climate Action Plan… Read more.

CBE stands OPPOSED to AB 26 (Bonilla). AB 26 as amended would prioritize refineries for public money from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund… (Read more)

On June 19th, the Los Angeles City Council voted 12-0 to direct the City Planning Department to research, analyze and draft Clean Up Green Up policy recommendations for Boyle Heights, Pacoima and Wilmington. Clean Up Green up will help create more green businesses, green spaces, and reduce the pollution harming the health of residents. Read more about this victory.

For the first time refinery workers and community groups have proposed a specific approach to preventing the potentially catastrophic impacts from increased emissions caused by refining “dirtier” grades of oil.  Read more.

Read our letter opposing AB 26.

Concerned public denied constitutional rights to challenge California Energy Commission permits. Read the press release.