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Calendar of Events
October 30, 2010Harvest of the Sea – Harvest of the Land
An evening to benefit CRPE
Hosted by Savory Thymes at Hillside Gardens
Join us for readings of Luke Cole’s travel writings.
Protecting California’s Kettleman City Residents
In an eighteen-month period beginning in September 2007, six babies were born with cleft palate and various heart and brain defects in Kettleman City. Three of the infants died from complications stemming from those birth defects. Residents estimated that the affected children represented nearly a quarter of the Kettleman City births in that time period. A seventh baby was delivered stillborn the following year, also with a cleft palate. Residents now estimate that as many as 13 infants have been afflicted by birth defects in Kettleman City since late 2007.
Pesticide Regulation
Pesticides are the fourth largest source of smog-forming Volatile Organic Compound emissions in the San Joaquin Valley. Despite the massive amount of VOC from pesticides – more than 26 tons per day – California has no regulations to reduce this huge source of smog pollution.
Pesticides are the fourth largest source of smog-forming Volatile Organic Compound emissions in the San Joaquin Valley. Despite the massive amount of VOC from pesticides – more than 26 tons per day – California has no regulations to reduce this huge source of smog pollution.
Climate Justice Campaign
In 2002, CRPE began representing residents of the Native Village of Kivalina and the City of Kivalina, an Inupiat community in northwestern Alaska on the coast of the Chukchi Sea, in a lawsuit to protect the Wulik River, the drinking water source and a subsistence fish resource for Kivalina, from massive pollution from the Red Dog Mine, the world’s largest lead and zinc mine.
Power to the People
The Power to the People (P2P) Campaign was conceived as part of CRPE’s land use campaign which is designed to ensure that rural low-income communities and communities of color benefit from healthy, equitable land use decisions with an emphasis not only on changing the decisions, but how and by whom decisions are made.
The Center on Race, Poverty & the EnvironmentThe Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment is a national environmental justice organization with offices in San Francisco and Delano, California. We provide legal, organizing, and technical assistance to grassroots groups in low-income communities and communities of color fighting environmental hazards. In our work, we strive to achieve these goals: Our Major Campaign Areas Include:
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Individuals taking part in a particular campaign leave the campaign with more personal capacity than they had coming into it., 
Community involved has more power vis a vis decision makers at the end of the campaign than at the beginning., and 
Working with affected communities, we concretely address the environmental hazard at hand.
