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CEJA’s press releases can be found below.


In opposition to a supermajority of representatives in both the Senate and Assembly who voted in support of SB 954, Governor Newsom has declined to take a proactive approach. Instead, the advanced manufacturing exemptions in SB 131 (2025) will be allowed to harm our communities, with the vague hope that changes can be made in the future.

The California Environmental Justice Alliance's (CEJA) voter guide for 2026 ballot measures is based on how each measure aligns with environmental justice priorities.

Under the central message of “Grounded in Community, Growing Through Action: 25 Years and Beyond,” CEJA and CEJA Action will celebrate past accomplishments while working to advance the environmental justice (EJ) priorities determined by CEJA’s member organizations and partners, and hold state representatives and the executive branch accountable to EJ communities.

In a victory for environmental justice, local governments now have the right to defend their residents from oil and gas drilling and the state will close more idle wells

Today, environmental justice and health organizations whose members live within 3,200 feet of oil drilling in their neighborhoods, announced they are escalating their efforts to defeat Big Oil’s relentless efforts to poison communities of color and low-income communities.

Groups note major improvements in scaling up mass transit, stopping the expansion of gas power plants, and planning for a coordinated phasedown of oil production; warn that reliance on carbon capture schemes for fossil fuel infrastructure derails meaningful climate action.

Working families, advocates say state draft plan is grossly out of touch with lived reality in communities that experience suffocating pollution and doubles down on fossil fuels at a time…

One hundred and twenty eight scientists and academics urge Governor Newsom and the California Air Resources Board to fix flawed Scoping Plan that sets back California’s climate goals.

More than 108 organizations slam California Air Resources Board climate policy blueprint as setback for state and world, call for urgent changes in letter to Governor Newsom.

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