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The climate plan (or Scoping Plan) that California passed in December 2022 was full of praise for the environmental justice (EJ) community. This was a very different tune from that of the first climate plan, in 2008, when the conflict between the California Air Resources Board (the state climate agency) and the Environmental Justice Advisory Committee (the state’s official climate advisory body) led to EJAC members filing a lawsuit against the state for environmental racism. Through 15 years of developing more sophisticated climate justice policies and advocacy strategies, the California EJ movement’s climate leadership is shining.
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