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Job Opening: Kings-Fresno County Outreach Worker
CCEJN’s Vision & Mission The Central California Environmental Justice Network’s (CCEJN) mission is to empower our communities and secure our children’s future by eliminating negative environmental impacts in low-income communities of color in the Central Valley. CCEJN’s vision is to end environmental racism and achieve economic justice and health equity through sustainable regional solutions. The…
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Job Opening: Kern County Environmental Outreach Worker
CCEJN’s Vision & Mission The Central California Environmental Justice Network’s (CCEJN) mission is to empower our communities and secure our children’s future by eliminating negative environmental impacts in low-income communities of color in the Central Valley. CCEJN’s vision is to end environmental racism and achieve economic justice and health equity through sustainable regional solutions. Position…
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Climate Resiliency in Action
The celebration held on August 13 in Five Points brought together CCEJN, the GoFundMe Foundation, and communities affected by extreme heat, air pollution, and polluted water.
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Pass to Pollute: New Reports Expose Oil and Gas Pollution in Kern County and Loopholes That Let It Continue
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 12th, 2025 Contact: Cesar Aguirre, (559) 907-2418, cesar.aguirre@ccejn.org Bakersfield, CA – Three newly released reports expose alarming health and safety risks confronting Kern County communities—particularly those living next to oil and gas operations—and uncover state-created loopholes that allow dangerous pollution to persist. IVAN Quarterly Reports (2024)A typical year in Kern County…
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EL Proyecto de Milpa
CCEJN’s Agroecology Project launches the first of three seed-saving workshops. Over fourteen participants gathered this past Sunday, to learn different seed-saving techniques in a workshop facilitated by Jeanette Acosta, Ethnobotanist and Permaculture Instructor. The afternoon was filled with an amazing and enthusiastic space dedicated to a wonderful and enlightening hand-on seed-saving activity. These seed-saving workshops…
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Manchin Drops Permitting Language
Frontline communities and indigenous leaders across the Nation will continue to stand firm against permitting operations that prop up the fossil fuel industry. With the climate crisis in full effect, each step we take to protect our environment becomes more and more meaningful to our future. We thank the leaders who helped ensure this dirty…
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Community Leads Regulators to More Methane-Spewing Wells in Morningstar Neighborhood
Abandoned & Idled Wells Pose Significant Safety Threats to Frontline Communities Across CA After Decades of Neglect May 24, 2022 Contact: Cesar Aguirre, (661) 979-2721, cesar.aguirre@ccejn.org Kobi Naseck, 214-609-2439, kobi@vision-ca.org Bakersfield, CA – While onsite to verify that two abandoned oil wells in a residential neighborhood were no longer pouring methane into the community since…
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Central Valley Youth Camping Trip
Hume Lake is a 87 acre mountain lake reservoir within the Sequoia National forest. Did you know that it is the first concrete-reinforced dam in the world? This beautiful lake offers recreational activities such as: biking, hiking, fishing, and boating. In this picture our Youth Environmental Savvy group are enjoying their wonderful time in the…
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Water and Environmental Justice in the Central Valley
To address the importance of access to this vital resource, California was one of the first states to pass a law that guarantees the “Human Right to Water.” In 2012, California law, AB 685, declared that “every person in the state has the right to clean, safe and affordable drinking water.” — Read more here
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Protect Agricultural Workers During COVID-19
COVID-19 has changed how the world functions, and it seems like it is not going anywhere as we are close to entering the new year. As people try to normalize their life as much as they can, there is still one vulnerable population that this pandemic is hitting hard: agricultural workers. Many of these workers…
