Department of Pesticide Regulation Seeks Public Input on Work to Establish an Environmental Justice Advisory Committee

Department of Pesticide Regulation Seeks Public Input on Work to Establish an Environmental Justice Advisory Committee

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California Department of Pesticide Regulation announced five workshops in May to share information and gather public input on the department’s work to establish a new Environmental Justice Advisory Committee (EJAC). State Assembly Bill 652, signed into law in 2023, directed the department to create an EJAC, with the goal of providing prioritized recommendations to DPR on ways to integrate environmental justice considerat…

Toxic Inequity: The Environmental Justice Movement and How it Began

The environmental justice movement—championed primarily by people of color – was born of a statistical fact: Those who live, work, and play in America’s most polluted environments are commonly people of color and those living in poverty. Because of environmental justice advocates, we now know this as environmental racism, and it’s precisely what communities of color have been battling for decades.What is environmental justice? Environmental just…