Environmental justice guarantees equally high levels of environmental protection for all people – regardless of race, color, national origin, or income. The development, adoption, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws and policies can protect a sustainable community from hazardous and polluting industries located predominantly in its neighborhood.

Our environmental justice work began with a chance meeting between the Godmother of Bayview-Hunters Point, Espanola Jackson, and Brightline founder Joshua Arce on April 16, 2007. Jackson and Arce spoke for 2 hours on the phone that night and in short time Brightline would join Ms. Jackson's long-shot effort to "Stop The Peakers".

It's Over: Potrero Power Plant Closes For Good On January 1, 2011 Posted Tue, Dec 21, 2010 The December 21, 2010 announcement that San Francisco's polluting Potrero Power Plant would shut down by the end of the year was as much a cause for celebration as it was a reason to recount the twists and turns that it took to finally shutter the city's last fossil fuel-burning commercial power plant. For many years, ... State Regulator Finally Agrees To Close Entire Potrero Power Plant In 2010 Posted Wed, Jan 13, 2010 Cal-ISO Letter To Mayor Gavin Newsom Carries The News That Community Leaders, Environmentalists, And Elected Officials Have Sought For Years January 13, 2010, San Francisco, CA—Yesterday, from a secluded office park in a remote corner of Folsom where a little-known quasi-regulatory agency called the California I... Senator Leland Yee Tells Cal-ISO To Shut Down The Potrero Power Plant Posted Thu, Oct 29, 2009 Senator Leland Yee has joined the groundswell of elected officials calling for Cal-ISO to allow San Francisco to shut down the aging, polluting, and redundant Potrero Power Plant. Senator Yee urges Cal-ISO to shut down and stresses that "San Francisco has waited too long to see the Potrero plant closed." Downloa... Community Demands Potrero Power Plant Closure, More Cal-ISO Accountability Posted Thu, Oct 29, 2009 In a letter that was personally delivered to the California Independent System Operator this morning, Brightline's Joshua Arce, Greenaction's Marie Harrison, SF Green Party's Eric Brooks, and SF Community Power's Steve Moss today demanded that the California Independent System Operator cancel the contract that keeps th... Senator Mark Leno Calls For Closure Of The Potrero Power Plant Posted Fri, Sep 11, 2009 California Senator Mark Leno has ratcheted up the campaign to close the Potrero Power Plant starting next year, asking the the Cal-ISO Board of Governors to "carefully consider the concerns of community and environmental groups" and to "shut down the Plant entirely by the end of 2010." Senator Leno joins Mayor G...

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