Valley Improvement Projects (VIP)

VIP's Co-founder and Director, Bianca Lopez, will be on DPR's EJAC and Grayson Neighborhood Council Co-founder John X. Mataka will be an alternate!

Hoy, el DPR anunció los miembros de su nuevo Comité Asesor de Justicia Ambiental, que brindará recomendaciones sobre cómo el DPR puede integrar consideraciones de justicia ambiental en su trabajo y relacionarse con las comunidades. bit.ly/47CWjcU

Great to join with legislators and advocates this morning to call on @CalRecycle to adopt strong regulations to implement #SB54, groundbreaking legislation that forces producers to take responsibility for their packaging and reducing plastic waste. We need to get this right to maximize the benefits to consumers, ratepayers and the state as a whole. @BenAllenCA @AsmGreggHart @isaacgbryan @asmtasha @CALPIRG @oceana @OurOcean @MontereyAq @NSACTION_US @Surfrider @cawrecycles @EnvCalifornia @cleanh2oaction

Fighting against Chemical Recycling and other false solutions to the Plastic Pollution Crisis at the @UN Treaty Negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland! Shout out to Environmental Justice Communities Against Plastics (EJCAP) and @brkfreeplastic

De hecho, el 61 % de todas las muestras analizadas presentaron residuos de pesticidas detectables, incluyendo casi el 12 % de los productos etiquetados como orgánicos. pesticidereform.org/state-regulato…

@CA_PesticideReg De hecho, el 61 % de todas las muestras analizadas presentaron residuos de pesticidas detectables, incluyendo casi el 12 % de los productos etiquetados como orgánicos. pesticidereform.org/state-regulato…

Hoy, el DPR publicó un informe que indicó que aprox. 97% de las frutas y verduras vendidas en CA no tenían residuos de pesticidas detectables o tenían residuos por debajo de los límites federales de protección. bit.ly/4lLb2qJ

The event, “Breath In, Speak Out,” hosted by Valley Improvement Projects and the West Modesto Community Collaborative, reviewed strategies for how the community can speak up for itself about poor air quality in an area residents say is severely neglected.

“We organized a peaceful protest to call out ICE’s harm to immigrant communities, and instead of being heard, we were criminalized,” said Bianca Lopez of VIP in a statement. “This is targeted policing, plain and simple.”

THANK YOU to everyone who was able to attend and participate in the CEJC 10th Anniversary Celebration & Conference!! It was an amazing weekend of building solidarity, sharing knowledge, advocating for change, and also just having a good time! We hope to do it all again next year!

“I don’t think that municipal waste landfills were ever designed to accept this kind of waste, and to deregulate it ... puts those landfill communities” at risk, said Jane Williams, executive director of California Communities Against Toxics. apnews.com/article/hazard…

Hey, Turlock residents: We need a morality check on homelessness | Opinion modbee.com/opinion/opn-co…

Stanislaus County will finally have no more toxic ash put into our landfill from the trash incinerator and now the state wants to us take toxic soil from all over the state! 🤬

🚗⚡Know someone dreaming of ditching gas for good? Tag a friend who would love to get behind the wheel of a clean, quiet, and cost-saving electric vehicle!​ Curious about others' experiences? Read their stories​: evequity.org/testimonials/ #TagAFriend

Did you know? Not all green produce bags are compostable! Only bags with the BPI (Biodegradable Product Institute) logo are certified compostable. Keep plastic bags out of your green bin and help us keep the compost healthy!

Chale, we just #justtryingtobreathe ! We deserve that right. Shout out to all the homies holding it down in their own communities across califas,ey!

@arseniomataka @FrankieQuinones @APEN4EJ @CWaterC @CRPE_EJ @ccvhealth @STAND_LA @EYCEJ @CCEJN Ey! Shout out to all the homies from LA to the CV and to the Bay! We out here #justtryingtobreathe !

Earth Day EJ shout out from Creeper @FrankieQuinones @APEN4EJ @VIP_Stanislaus @CWaterC @CRPE_EJ @ccvhealth @STAND_LA @EYCEJ @CCEJN #EnvironmenrtalJustice #EarthDay

📢🌎@CCEJN, a member of VISIÓN, found toxins leaking from neighborhood oil wells in LA. It is time to plug these wells and end neighborhood oil drilling! Read the full story: laist.com/news/climate-e…

Back in 1988, Chem Waste and Kings County tried to jam a toxic waste incinerator down the throats of Kettleman City residents. The town of 1100 residents were already carrying the burden of the largest toxic waste dump west of Alabama. The community fought back, organized and filed a CEQA lawsuit. Sacramento Superior Court Jeffrey Gunther ruled that the EIR failed to analyze the toxic waste incinerator’s impacts on air quality and on agriculture and, most importantly, that the residents of Kettleman City had not been meaningfully included in the CEQA process. Judge Gunther: “The residents of Kettleman City, almost 40 percent of whom were monolingual in Spanish, expressed continuous and strong interest in participating in the CEQA review process for the incinerator project at [Chem Waste’s] Kettleman Hills Facility, just four miles from their homes. Their meaningful involvement in the CEQA review process was effectively precluded by the absence of Spanish translation.” The toxic waste incinerator was never built. #CEQA @CRPE_EJ @CRLAinc @Greenaction_EJ

30 years ago, my community ❤️CEQA to protect this area from being paved over by sprawling housing developments. Now this: California Looks To Restore Floodplains, To Protect Communities From Impacts Of Climate Change kqed.org/news/11965257/…

@CalEPASecretary We are left with the same concerns.

@CalEPASecretary Yes, we are excited about the potential it has. At the moment it is very lacking in providing key information bout the applications that would allow us to actually protect ourselves from pesticide exposure. There is no exact location. And no follow up on the proposed application

Excited about the launch of this new tool! Californians now have real-time, accessible information about certain pesticides being sprayed in their communities. This is a big step forward to deliver key information. Looking forward to tracking how it’s working - check it out!