Climate Justice

Fresno Bee reporter John Ellis on the signing of landmark climate change bills by Governor Brown today in Fresno. Ellis spoke with PA’s Chelsea Tu about benefits to low-income communities [...]

For Immediate Release. 091416. Governor Brown to sign landmark climate legislation today in Fresno, California. Governor set to sign AB 1550 (Gomez) which guarantees that going forward, at least [...]

By Chelsea Tu The 2015-16 legislative session in Sacramento wrapped up with watershed victories for social and environmental justice. A series of bills, among them one that directs climate [...]

For Immediate Release on August 31, 2016. Legislators send climate justice bills to the Governor. AB 1550, GGRF allocations will aid under-served communities and extend California’s fight [...]

KPFA reports that a state plan to allocate 400 million dollars for affordable housing is now dead, due to its linkage to a controversial proposal by Governor Jerry Brown that would have created [...]

June 21, 2011 Mark Green, Chair, and Members ABAG Administrative Committee Adrienne Tissier, Chair, and Members Metropolitan Transportation Commission Dear Chairs and Members: We join several of [...]

Public Advocates proposed a new chapter on “Civil Rights and Environmental Justice in Regional Transportation Planning” for California’s RTP Guidelines. The proposed new chapter includes federal [...]

More than forty groups have called upon MTC and ABAG to incorporate key elements of the “Equity, Environment and Jobs” Scenario into the final Plan Bay Area. On September 23, 2015 wrote a letter [...]

March 20, 2014 Principles for ensuring that Cap and Trade revenues deliver benefits to disadvantaged communities, as required by SB 535 (De Leon), as drafted by Public Advocates, APEN, Coalition [...]

May 20, 2014 Public Advocates, one of four leading members of the 535 Coalition, is working with Coalition partners to ensure that disadvantaged communities receive tangible, meaningful benefits [...]