Building a Healthy & Equitable California

For close to a decade, the STAND-L.A. coalition has been calling on the city to stop extracting oil near homes and schools. Victory, at long last, is within reach.

Thanks to a new rule under consideration, now is the time for Californians to make themselves heard on this issue.

Big Oil is leaving behind a colossal and dangerous mess on its way out. We need help from President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda to get started on the cleanup, but industry and not taxpayers must ultimately foot the bill.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously yesterday to start the process of phasing out oil drilling in unincorporated parts of the County, including within the largest urban oil field in the country, the Inglewood Oil Field.

We have to transition away from fossil fuels. That’s why it’s essential that Congress pass budget reconciliation with offshore drilling provisions—and enact President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda.

With AB 125, California has an opportunity to reshape our food and farming system to help protect workers in fields, kitchens, and grocery stores while providing our most vulnerable communities improved access to healthy, sustainably produced food.

As California thinks about how to rebuild, our decision makers need to think long-term and tie economic recovery with support for our small and mid-sized farmers, our essential workers, and well-established climate-smart agriculture programs.

In Central California, small ranches and farms are growing their connections—to the land, to the past, and to each other.

Managing the risk of these “forever chemicals” has focused primarily on one chemical—out of thousands—at a time. It doesn’t work, so we must change this system to protect public health.

From farms to public hearings, the women of Líderes Campesinas are standing up against the pesticide exposure, COVID-19 risk, and other threats disproportionately impacting their community.

The bold move will protect children's health in the state and across the country—as well as get the ball rolling for other states to follow suit.

Local environmental justice groups get a boost from the city’s Clean Up Green Up policy, which brings green zoning to three heavily polluted communities.

Residents who live near the country’s busiest ports are getting a new lens on the pollution in their backyards, and new tactics to help fight it.