CARB Environmental Justice Blog

Governor Brown gives remarks in Bell Gardens. BELL GARDENS – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today signed AB 617 by Assemblymembers Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens), Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella) and Miguel Santiago (D-Los Angeles) to establish a groundbreaking program to measure and combat air pollution at the neighborhood level – in the communities most impacted. “All this poison is the basis of our prosperity and that’s the dark paradox of modernity – we get the goodies but we get the poison with it. So today, we are taking a step to take the poison out as well as increase the prosperity,” said Governor Brown at today’s bill signing ceremony. “Today we are proving that California will always stand with our most disadvantaged communities. Faced with some of the most destructive impacts of air pollution in the country, we think creatively, work collaboratively and act quickly – defying the odds to protect our children; and the future of our great, golden state,” ...

  SACRAMENTO - The California Air Resources Board Executive Officer Richard Corey announced today the appointment of Veronica Eady as CARB’s inaugural Assistant Executive Officer for Environmental Justice. Veronica Eady is currently Vice President and Director of Conservation Law Foundation Massachusetts and was the Associate General Counsel and Director of Environmental Justice at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, a non-profit civil rights law firm in New York City. Eady has also served as Director of the Environmental Justice and Brownfields Programs for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, where she was the principal author of Massachusetts’ Environmental Justice Policy.  Eady was also Executive Director of Alternatives for Community and Environment, an environmental justice advocacy organization. She is the former chair of EPA’s federal advisory committee for environmental justice, the National Environmental Justice Ad...