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/calif…