Chelsea Tu

Senior Attorney, Center on Race, Poverty, & the Environment. Comments are my own.

[Chelsea Tu @ChelseaCRPE]

Oil & gas industry interests have long led disinformation efforts & attempted to divide communities by pretending to speak for communities of color. Let’s set the record straight: communities want a #JustTransition! https://t.co/sXPZBrPxIn.

[Chelsea Tu @ChelseaCRPE]

@CRPE_EJ and other EJ orgs support AB 995... will @GavinNewsom follow suit and #SignAB995? Reform to the #DTSC is long overdue - it’s time to demand accountability from California’s regulator of toxic substances.

[Chelsea Tu @ChelseaCRPE]

Senators Hertzberg, Hueso, Borgeas, Caballero, and Jones will have the second chance next Wed (812) to meet the moment and vote yes on AB 345. @VoicesCA @CRPE_EJ @cejapower

[Chelsea Tu @ChelseaCRPE]

@CRPE_EJ @VoicesCA

[Chelsea Tu @ChelseaCRPE]

The fate of our children’s health is being heard today. #yesonAB345

[Center on Race, Poverty, & the Environment @CRPE_EJ]

Just in time for the resumption of legislative hearings- CRPE's 2020 Legislative Priorities.

[Chelsea Tu @ChelseaCRPE]

#AB345 protects Californians, mostly people of color, living within 2,500 feet of an oil and gas well. IT IS TIME that @SenToniAtkins and @SenateHertzberg vote #yesonAB345 to protect Black&brown communities from environmental racism and fossil fuel pollution. @CRPE_EJ @VoicesCA

[Chelsea Tu @ChelseaCRPE]

@CRPE_EJ We are seeking donations to support the CRPE mutual aid fund to provide cash help to Kern, Tulare, and Kings residents financially impacted by COVID-19 & not eligible for other funding. Any amount is appreciated! https://t.co/t5q1fQLdC9 (Designate "Mutual Aid Fund").

[Center on Race, Poverty, & the Environment @CRPE_EJ]

"Our colleagues & children have died because of pesticide spraying. We have 9 y/os w/ prostate cancer. A girl drank water from the school & she died. We want to work in our garden, but the smell from industrial contamination is strong, it is difficult to work." -Anabel Marquez

[CCAEJ @CCAEJ]

These are the women behind stopping future oil wells & making sure their families aren’t robbed of anymore of their life, getting sick from oil and gas

[Center on Race, Poverty, & the Environment @CRPE_EJ]

We’re here @ the historical 40 Acres, hearing how the Farmworker & EJ Movements are connected: the Farmworker struggle against DDT in the 1960s is cited as one of the earliest enviro struggles. Cesar Chavez took his last fast here to bring awareness to pesticide exposure.

[Center on Race, Poverty, & the Environment @CRPE_EJ]

Thank you @CAgovernor Newsom! #AB1628 is now law!
"The signing of AB 1628 shows CA's commitment to ensure that recommendations by #EnvironmentalJustice communities will, at minimum, be meaningfully considered in environmental decision-making." @ChelseaCRPE

[Chelsea Tu @ChelseaCRPE]

@CRPE_EJ @CAgovernor @PODERSF @APEN4EJ @CBECal @LCJandA @SCOPE_LA @CCAEJ @AsmRobertRivas @PSRLA And thank you, @AsmRobertRivas for your leadership authoring this bill, and @PSRLA and @cejapower for your partnership. What an amazing team!

[Center on Race, Poverty, & the Environment @CRPE_EJ]

Our team in our power: CRPE staff & community groups being mighty in Sac yesterday, talking about #EJPriorities, educating other EJ leaders, and winning boss awards! "Congreso is a wonderful opportunity for our communities to make their voices heard." @GustoHQ #OurHealthOurPower

[Chelsea Tu @ChelseaCRPE]

#25 limits vital public participation @ environmental review processes EJ communities rely on for healthy neighborhoods. Please vote no! #ProtectCEQA #HealthyHoods @Ash_Kalra @wendycarrillo @LorenaAD80 @JonesSawyer59 @LuzRivas

[California Environmental Justice Alliance @cejapower]

#AB1628 just passed Senate Judiciary Committee! Thank you @RobertRivas_CA for your leadership in ensuring meaningful involvement of frontline communities in local land use decisions & @SenHannahBeth @SenGonzalez_33 @HenrySternCA @BobWieckowskiCA for voting YES on #EJpriorities

[Center on Race, Poverty, & the Environment @CRPE_EJ]

A priority bill of ours, #AB1628 passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday!
#AB1628 recognizes that frontline communities can & should be involved in the environmental decisions that impact their neighborhoods. Yes to access to healthy air, water, and soil!

[Chelsea Tu @ChelseaCRPE]

We took clerks on a toxic tour of oil fields, almonds & pistachios fed by oil wastewater, dairy digesters, hazwaste sites spanning Kern & Tulare Cties. Interwoven into this damaged landscape are countless victories and losses of CRPE & communities. @CRPE_EJ @JuanFloresEJ

[Chelsea Tu @ChelseaCRPE]

Our law clerks rescued a kitty in 107 degree weather in Delano! Name suggestions? @CRPE_EJ

[Chelsea Tu @ChelseaCRPE]

Action packed day in the Capitol today: supporting AB 1628 (strengthening definition of EJ); $140m for the Transformative Climate Communities program; and safe drinking water for all! @CRPE_EJ @cejapower @PSRLA