Central California Environmental Justice Network (CCEJN)
Central California Environmental Justice Network (CCEJN) is a climate justice organization that advocates for “eliminating negative environmental impacts in low-income and communites of color.” 1 According to its website, the CCEJN also supports proposals it claims will “end environmental racism, achieve economic justice, and health equity.” 1 The CCEJN has also engaged in “anti-fracking organizing,” training communities on how to advocate for banning the use of pesticides, and coordinating reporting networks meant to monitor environmental issues within the central California region. 2
In 2024, the organization received a $500,000 grant from the U.S Environmental Protection Agency‘s (EPA) “Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving (EJCPS) Cooperative Agreement Program,” through funding under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), for the purpose of creating “campaigns capable of producing meaningful environmental and public health results.” 3
CCEJN envisions an end to environmental racism and the achievement of economic justice and health equity in California's San Joaquin Valley. To advance this vision, CCEJN works to empower our communities and secure our children's future by eliminating negative environmental impacts in low-income and communities of color.
This unrestricted grant was used to support the organization's mission to empower our communities and secure our children’s future by eliminating negative environmental impacts in low-income and communities of color in the Central Valley, California
To support an organization that improves the health of BIPOC low income communities in the Central Valley by helping to eliminate negative environmental impacts and counteract the effects of structural racism.
