2024 Mid-year check in on Sacramento EJ efforts
ClimatePlan has not been convening monthly EJCGC meetings this year like we did in 2023, but it's still been a busy first half of 2024 as work on matters of environmental justice continues to be ongoing in our community.
- Opposing the proposed Daytime Camping Ban ordinance
- Sacramento County Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force seeks applicants
- BIPOC Climate CA network planning a summer get-together in Sacramento
- Fighting for the RYDE Free RT program in the City budget
- Defending the existence of Camp Resolution
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Read more60+ Organizations Call for Caltrans Accountability to Governor Newsom's Climate Vision
From Streetsblog CA: 1:00 PM PDT on October 17, 2023
"More Than 60 Organizations Urge Governor Newsom to Intervene at Caltrans
California is still spending billions of dollars on highway and interchange expansions that increase reliance on driving, drain household budgets, and make traffic worse. Governor Newsom should step in."
Read moreRegional Work: Road User Charge in San Diego
In 2022 ClimatePlan worked with Assemblymember Laura Friedman on AB 2438, a bill to align California’s investments in transportation infrastructure with the Climate Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure (CAPTI). While AB 2438 was vetoed at the Governor’s office, the charge of cutting through the institutional inertia of a government as expansive and complicated as California’s to get on a path for meeting the state’s existing climate goals remains - the work must move forward. San Diego is a place where we see that conversation unfolding in real-time.
Read morePersonal Reflection on Race in the Climate Movement, Part 3
As we begin to round out Black History Month and ClimatePlan’s series of personal essays on identity and climate (here are Moiz’s and Nicole’s), I’ve been reflecting on why transportation justice is so important to me. I came to ClimatePlan, after years of organizing around various environmental justice issues. Early in my organizing career, I learned the difference between environmentalism and environmental justice the hard way. Once, I sat through a meeting where people named trees by their scientific names but asked me for a nickname because ‘Nailah’ was too difficult. I heard predominantly white communities advocate to preserve land for birds but were silent about waste treatment centers sited next to me and my BIPOC neighbors. What always floored me was these two different worlds were often separated by a road.
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