Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment

The Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment "is an environmental justice litigation organization dedicated to helping grassroots groups across the United States attack head on the disproportionate burden of pollution borne by poor people and people of color. We provide organizing, technical and legal assistance to help community groups stop immediate environmental threats. In the 16 years that CRPE has been helping the poor and people of color resist toxic intrusions and protect their environmental health, among our many victories we have beaten toxic waste incinerators, forced oil refineries to use cleaner technology, beaten a 55,000-cow mega-dairy, stopped numerous tire burning proposals, helped bring safe drinking water to various rural communities, stopped a garbage dump on the Los Coyotes reservation in southern California, and empowered hundreds of local residents along the way."

Funders
"Over the past five years, CRPE has received support from the following foundations:


 * Ralph Santiago Abascal Fellowship of the University of California-Hastings College of the Law
 * Alaska Conservation Foundation
 * American Bar Association
 * California Endowment
 * California Wellness Foundation
 * California Women’s Foundation
 * Ecological Rights Foundation
 * Equal Justice Works
 * Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund
 * Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation
 * Hewlett Foundation
 * Impact Fund
 * Stephen & Michele Kirsch Foundation
 * Klamath Environmental Law Center
 * Rockefeller Family Foundation
 * Rose Foundation
 * Vanguard Foundation

Directors
Accessed November 2007:
 * Luke W. Cole - Director, Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment, San Francisco, CA
 * Richard Drury - Attorney at Law, Adams Broadwell Joseph & Cardozo, South San Francisco, CA
 * Eileen Gauna - Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, CA
 * Michel Gelobter - Executive Director, Redefining Progress, Oakland, CA
 * Angela Harris, Board President - Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, Berkeley, CA
 * Sandra Meraz - President, Community for a Better Alpaugh, Alpaugh, CA

Contact

 * Web: http://www.crpe-ej.org

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