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"If you are passionate about advancing innovative models that center equity, environmental justice, and catalytic partnerships,   this   position   might be right for you! SGC seeks a talented and passionate person to join our innovative, equity-focused Transformative Climate Communities ( TCC ) Program to  support program implementation, evaluation, and administrative efforts in our   TCC -invested communities .  The Transformative Climate Communities ( TCC ) Program funds community-led development and infrastructure projects that achieve major environmental, health, and economic benefits in California’s most disadvantaged communities. The ideal candidate should have experience working with local jurisdictions on capital improvement project or/and community development and is passionate about equity and sustainable community planning. You can read some of   TCC 's latest highlights in SGC’s  2019-2020 Annual Report.  

Please join us on August 20th for the Third in the series of CARB EJ Storytelling Events.   This Storytelling Session will feature the young people who are working with, or graduated from, youth programs as part of the great work of the following non-profits: Groundwork Richmond  New Voices Are Rising/ Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment (East Oakland) Green Tech (Sacramento) Lil Manila's Youth Program (Stockton) The meeting will run from 1-4 on August 20th.  It will be held via zoom.  [RECORDING COMING SOON]

With a Board Hearing rapidly approaching at the end of August, it is important to familiarize yourself with the new at berth regulation that will be presented! Listed below is an infographic summarizing the regulation, as well as its proposed timeline through 2027. 

        New on Resources Radio   Equity and Electricity: Race Gap in Household Energy Use, with Eva Lyubich   In this episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Eva Lyubich, a PhD student in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a researcher at the Energy Institute at Haas. Lyubich elaborates on her recent working paper which reveals that black households in the United States pay higher energy bills on average than white households. Connecting her research to ongoing conversations about environmental justice, Lyubich discusses how these disparities stem in part from historically discriminatory policies that have restricted black Americans’ housing choices and ability to invest in energy efficiency.     Listen Now   A clean energy transition must account for inequity: “Energy efficiency improvements are seen as low-hanging fruit for reducing excess energy consumption. Joe Biden's most recent climate plan refl...

New opportunities are here for air districts to address a wider array of community concerns through incentives. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) recently shared a proposed addition to the Community Air Protection Incentives 2019 Guidelines with the public: a new chapter allowing air districts to design new kinds of incentives to clean up stationary sources of air pollution and to address concerns identified in the emissions reduction programs in the communities selected for participation in Assembly Bill 617.   An air district may submit for consideration new types of projects to address stationary sources of pollution. These sources typically consist of small industrial and manufacturing facilities, but any source of pollution at a fixed location may be considered stationary. Additionally, air districts with communities selected for emissions reduction programs may work with members of those communities to submit new kinds of projects to address their specific concerns. I...

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/07/us/suffragists-descendants.html 100 Years Later, These Activists Continue Their Ancestors’ Work