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- Breaking! Los Angeles Sued Over Racially Discriminatory Oil Drilling . . .
Youth for Environmental Justice (“Youth-EJ”) is a youth membership group with hundreds of high school and college student members in Southeast Los Angeles and Wilmington committed to securing environmental justice in their communities
- Environmental Justice Lawsuit Accuses L. A. of Discriminatory Oil . . .
The Complaint focuses especially on the risks of drilling operations on children “Because they breathe at a higher rate, and drink more water and consume more food in proportion to their body size, children receive higher doses of toxins and contaminants than adults ”
- Fighting to Eliminate Toxic Neighborhood Oil Drilling
CBE Action turned its attention to civic engagement this past year, launching a program to build power among low-income Black and Brown residents in four Environmental Justice (EJ) Communities in both Southern and Northern California, including Wilmington and the Southeast region of Los Angeles
- After Los Angeles Youth Sued City for Discriminatory Drilling Practices . . .
This legal battle has been brought by a state-based oil and gas trade group, the California Independent Petroleum Association (CIPA), which argues that after a judge granted it permission to participate in the youth lawsuit settlement discussions, it was allegedly blocked from doing so
- Case No. B282822 IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA . . .
chose to perform a policy-level adjustment to its procedures for processing oil drilling permit approvals The City also chose to settle a lawsuit filed by Appellants Youth for Environmental Justice, South Central Youth Leadership Coalition, and Center for Biological Diversity (hereinafter, the Nonprof
- Court Rejects Oil Industrys Retaliatory Lawsuit Against L. A. Youth Groups
In 2015 Youth for Environmental Justice and the South Central Youth Leadership Coalition, joined by the Center for Biological Diversity, sued the city of Los Angeles for rubber-stamping oil projects in communities of color
- Oil and gas drilling in cities puts people of color at risk. L. A. youth . . .
In 2015, the Center for Biological Diversity and two local youth groups, Youth for Environmental Justice (which is affiliated with CBE) and the South Central Youth Leadership Coalition,
- Nalleli Cobo Began Fighting to End Drilling in LA at Age 9. After 12 . . .
Cobo co-founded the grassroots South Central Youth Leadership Coalition, and in 2015 the coalition — joined by Youth for Environmental Justice and the Center for Biological Diversity — sued the city for racial discrimination in its oil drilling permitting practices
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