United to Defend California’s Environmental Protection Laws
CEQA Works is a broad coalition of civic, conservation, environmental justice, historic preservation, and public health groups, business leaders, and legal experts. Participating organizations are committed to shielding California’s landmark environmental laws from radical reforms that would limit public input into land use planning, threaten public health, and weaken environmental protections.
We are committed to positive updates to the California Environmental Quality Act that maintain its core principles:
- Transparency. CEQA must continue to require public disclosure of the project, its potential environmental impacts and consideration of reasonable alternatives.
- Mitigation. CEQA must continue to require mitigation of all significant effects on the environment to the extent feasible.
- Comprehensive protection. CEQA must apply to all significant impacts on the environment, including cumulative impacts, and provide a safety net to cover holes in the existing regulatory structure.
- Public participation. CEQA must continue to require public participation in the review of environmental issues, including requiring a written response to public comments.
- Community enforcement. CEQA must continue to provide the public with the right to sue to enforce its protections, a key tool to protect communities, particularly those in disadvantaged areas.
CEQA Endorsements
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ACCE Action
Accountable Development Coalition
Advocates for Mammoth
Alameda Creek Alliance
All Things Connected
Angel Law
Audubon California
Baldwin Hills Oil Watch
Ballona Institute
Bay Area Healthy 880 Communities
Berkeley Partners for Parks
BlueGreen Alliance
The Bolsa Chica Land Trust
Brandt-Hawley Law Group
Briggs Law Corporation
California Coastkeeper Alliance
California Healthy Communities Network
California League of Conservation Voters
California Native Plant Society
California Oaks
California Preservation Foundation
California Prison Moratorium Project
California Trout
California Wildlife Foundation
Californians for Alternatives to Toxics
Canyon Back Alliance
Carrizo Commons
Center for Biological Diversity Committee for Green Foothills
Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment
Citizens Coalition for Safe Community
Citizens Committee to Complete the Refuge
Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park
Clean Air Now
Clean Water Action
Cleveland National Forest Foundation
Coalition for Clean Air
Coastal Conservation Network
Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation
Coast Law Group, LLP
Committee for Green Foothills
Communities for a Better Environment
Community Action Project (Calaveras County)
Concerned Citizens Coalition of Stockton
Conservation Biology Institute
Dean Democratic Club of Silicon Valley
Defenders of Wildlife
EcoMalibu
Endangered Habitats League
Environment in the Public Interest
Environmental Action Committee of West Marin
Environmental Defense Center
Environmental Defense Fund
Environmental Health Coalition
Environmental Justice Coalition for Water
Environmental Working Group
EPIC – the Environmental Protection Information Center
Equestrian Trails Inc.
The Escondido Creek Conservancy
Food & Water Watch
Foothill Conservancy
Forests Forever
Friends of College of San Mateo Gardens
Friends of Coyote Hills
Friends of the Eel River
Friends of Griffith Park
Friends of the Gualala River
Friends of Harbors, Beaches and Parks
Friends of Lassen Forest
Friends of Loma Alta Creek
Friends of Palm Springs Mountains
Friends of the North Fork
Friends of the Northern San Jacinto Valley
Friends of Rose Canyon
Friends of the Sepulveda Basin
Friends of the Swainson’s Hawk
Greenspace—The Cambria Land Trust
GreenTown Los Altos
High Sierra Rural Alliance
Hills For Everyone
Humane Society of the United States
Humboldt Baykeeper
Keep Fort Ord Wild; Sustainable Seaside
Laguna Greenbelt, Inc.
Land Watch Monterey County
Law Offices of Donald Mooney
Law Office of Mary L. Hudson
Law Office of Rose M. Zoia
Law Offices of Stuart Flashman
League of Women Voters of California
League to Save Lake Tahoe
Los Altos Hills Open Space Committee
Los Angeles Conservancy
Los Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust
Los Padres ForestWatch
Marin Audubon Society
Marin Conservation League
Mariposans for the Environment and Responsible Government
Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District
Miracle Mile Residential Association
MOMS Advocating Sustainability
Mountain Area Preservation Foundation
Mountain Meadows Conservancy
MoveOn. Org. of San Joaquin
M.R. Wolfe & Associates, P.C.
National Parks Conservation Association
Natural Resources Defense Council
Northcoast Environmental Center
North County Watch
Northern California River Watch
OccupySF Environmental Justice Working Group
Ocean Defenders Alliance
Pacific Energy Policy Center
Paula Lane Action Network
People for Land and Nature (PLAN)
Petaluma River Council
Physicians for Social Responsibility – Los Angeles
Planning & Conservation League
Preserve Calavera
Rossmann and Moore, LLP
Rural Residents and Friends
Russian River Watershed Protection Committee
San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO
San Mateo County Democracy for America
Santa Clarita Organization for Planning and the Environment
Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society
Santa Susana Field Lab Community Advisory Group
Save the American River Association
Save Everyone’s Access (SEA)
Save Mount Diablo
Save Our Heritage Organization (SOHO)
Save the Park
Save Our Shores
SF Ocean Edge
Shute, Mihaly and Weinberger, LLP
Sierra Club California
Sierra Nevada Alliance
Sierra Watch
Sonoma County Water Coalition
Stamp & Erickson, Attorneys at Law
Surfrider Foundation
Surfrider Foundation San Diego Chapter
The River Project
TRANSDEF
TURN-The Utility Reform Network
Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry California
Valley of the Moon Alliance
Ventura Citizens for Hillside Preservation
Water Conservation, Los Altos Hills
Western Properties
West County Toxics Coalition
Wetlands Defense Fund
Wittwer & Parkin, LLP
