Building a Regional Voice for Environmental Justice: In a project funded by The California Endowment and coordinated by the San Francisco Foundation the CJTC put together Building a Regional Voice for Environmental Justice about the partnerships and a presentation about the arc of the work. As you will see, the project is an innovative combination of research and organizing that has both firmly documented the case for action to reduce disparities and provided the research basis for organizing for improvements in air quality and siting practices.

Building Healthy Communities From the Ground Up: Environmental Justice in California: The goal of environmental justice is to ensure that all people have the right to safe, secure and sustainable livelihoods free of toxic pollution, and a voice in the decision-making that affects them. Building Healthy Communities from the Ground Up is the result of discussions between environmental justice organizations in California to explore environmental conditions in the state’s most impacted communities, and develop policy recommendations to address these issues.

California Partnership For The San Joaquin Valley- The San Joaquin Valley: California's 21st Century Opportunity: Recognizing that challenges in the San Joaquin Valley will affect the entire state, the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley today adopted a Strategic Action Proposal to tackle its economic, environmental and social challenges, as well as to position the region as central to the future of California.

California State Parks & The Great Central Valley, April 2004: “We are embarking on a 20-year effort to study the Central Valley and increase our presence by providing meaningful experiences to meet the needs of Valley residentsfor protection and interpretation of incredible natural, cultural, historical and recreational resources found only in the Valley.”

CARB- Air Quality And Land Use Handbook: A Community Health Perspective: As part of the Air Resources Board's (ARB) Community Health Program, the ARB has developed an Air Quality and Land Use Handbook (Handbook) which is intended to serve as a general reference guide for evaluating and reducing air pollution impacts associated with new projects that go through the land use decision-making process.

CARB- Let's Clear the Air, A Public Participation Guide to Air Quality Decision Making In California: This guide provides you with the basic tools and information needed to participate effectively in the air pollution policy, planning, permitting, and regulatory decision-making processes in California.

Carbon Capping: A Citizen's Guide: This guide explains carbon capping so that citizens can understand and shape it. The easy-to-read guide describes three different ways to cap carbon: cap-and-giveaway, cap-and-auction, and cap-and-rebate. It explains how if done right, a carbon cap is the single best tool to fight climate change, but if done wrong, will transfer hundreds of billions of dollars from families to corporate polluters.

Clearing the Air in the San Joaquin Valley: Developing an Action Plan for Regulators, Legislators, and the Public: Poor air quality is affecting the region’s residents, public health, and the economy. population of the region is growing more rapidly than in any other air basin in the state. This growth brings with it increases in vehicle miles traveled and urbanization, both of which counteract progress in emission reductions. As a result, the valley risks becoming the nation’s dirtiest region. Strong action by local, state, and federal officials can put the San Joaquin Valley back on the road to clean air, but it will take a coordinated effort and strong leadership that has, to date, been lacking.

Hung Out To Dry: How the Use of Perchloroethylene in Dry Cleaning Endangers You and Your Family's Health: Most Americans are unaware that over 85 percent of the more than 35,000 dry cleaners operating in the United States use a dangerous chemical called percholorethylene (perc), which poses a significant health risk to humans and the environment.

Resource Directory for Nonprofit Capacity Building in California’s Central Valley: Human Interaction Research Institute, April 2006:This directory offers a starting place for identifying individuals and organizations that provide capacity-building services and resources to nonprofit organizations throughout California’s Central Valley.

The Soul of Environmentalism: Rediscovering Transformational Politics In The 21st Century:A positive article about how the environmental movement can become more relevant to the broad public by addressing issues of race, socioeconomic class, and civil rights.

The State of the Great Central Valley of California: Assessing the Region via Indicators, The Environment, 2000-2005: 

The Women's Foundation of California: Gasping for Air, Why We Must Cultivate a Healthier Central Valley (English/Spanish) This regional supplement examines the Central Valley’s three major environmental health concerns — air pollution, water contamination and pesticide usage — and highlights successful community efforts to stem these problems and create a healthier region.

Top Achievements of the Environment Community in Southern California. Action.Results. Change. 2007: Through the Top Achievements Report 2007, we at Environment Now highlight how our community successfully responds to environmental challenges. The report features initiatives led by local nonprofits that resulted in positive, significant and permanent change in Southern California.

USEPA- Environmental Justice Biennial Report 2004 Integrating Environmental Justice: This report is based on the environmental justice action plans of each EPA office and region—first developed and implemented in 2003. These action plans serve as strategic tools to help managers and staff ensure that environmental justice considerations are integrated into all of the Agency's work and result in measurable environmental and public health outcomes.

USEPA- Toolkit for Assessing Potential Allegations of Environmental Injustice:This document is a toolkit, and therefore provides tools for EPA staff to use in assessing the environmental and human health concerns of such communities. It sets forth various research tools and provides a systematic approach for gathering and analyzing data related to environmental, social, economic, and health-related technical information to determine whether or not an environmental injustice situation appears to exist or may be avoided altogether.

CHE Toxicant and Disease Database
This is a scientifically based, web-interactive database summarizing the evidence of exposure to chemical contaminants and over 180 associated human diseases or conditions. It is a useful tool for researchers, health professionals, health-affected groups and others interested in reviewing the weight of evidence between associated toxicants and diseases. Another new feature of the database is that it is now searchable by Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) number as well as by disease, disease category and toxicant. The database also features a new and extensive list of links to other useful databases and resources.

Invisible-5 Audio Project
Invisible-5 investigates the stories of people and communities fighting for environmental justice along the I-5 corridor, through oral histories, field recordings, found sound, recorded music, and archival audio documents. The project also traces natural, social, and economic histories along the route. Many Valley sites featured, along with many CVAQers!

The Clean Air Standards Website - American Lung Association
This website provides timely information to public health and environmental advocates about the EPA review of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone and particulate matter.

Blog for Clean Air (hosted by Clean Air Watch)

California County Asthma Hospitalization Chart Book - CA Department of Health Services (Aug. 2000)
Hospitalization rates for asthma in California counties for 1995 through 1997. Rates are shown for each county by race/ethnicity for all ages and for children separately. The California State Health Department estimates that up to 2.2 million Californians suffer from physician diagnosed asthma. In 1997 alone, approximately 56,000 residents, including 16,700 children, required hospitalization because their asthma attacks were so severe. The statewide financial burden of asthma-related hospitalizations alone is nearly $350 million, with nearly a third of the bill paid by the State Medi-Cal program.