Who We Are
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.
CEQAWorks Coalition Supporters
California Environmental Voters
Center for Biological Diversity
Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment
Communities for a Better Environment
Earthjustice
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council)
Planning and Conservation League
Public Interest Advocates
Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment
Sierra Club California
Advocates for the Environment
Alameda Creek Alliance
Alliance for a Regional Solution to Airport Congestion
Alliance for Environmental Leadership
American Woodland Conservancy
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Audubon California
Ballona Institute
Banning Ranch Conservancy
Bay Area Healthy 880 Communities
Berkeley Partners for Parks
BlueGreen Alliance
Bolsa Chica Land Trust
Calfornia Healthy Communities Network
California Bicycle Coalition
California Clean Energy Committee
California Climate & Agriculture Network
California Coastkeeper Alliance
California Native Plant Society
California Native Plant Society – Mt. Lassen Chapter
California Native Plant Society – San Diego Chapter
California Native Plant Society — Santa Clara Valley
California Preservation Foundation
California River Watch
California Sportfishing Protection Alliance
California Trout
California Urban Streams Partnership
California Wilderness Coalition
California Wildlife Foundation
Californians for Alternatives to Toxics
Californians for Pesticide Reform
Canyon Land Conservation Fund (also Rural Canyons Conservation Fund)
Center for Climate Change and Health
Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice
Center for Environmental Health
Center for Food Safety
Central California Environmental Justice Network
Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy
Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center
Central Valley Air Quality Coalition
Centro Legal de la Raza
Citizens Committee to Complete the Refuge (CCCR) (San Francisco Bay)
Citizens for the Preservation of Parks & Beaches
Citizens’ Climate Lobby
Clean Air Now
Clean Water Action
Cleveland National Forest Foundation / Save Our Forest and Ranchlands
Climate Action Campaign
Climate First: Replacing Oil & Gas (CFROG)
Coalition for Clean Air
Coaltion for San Francisco Neighborhoods
Coast Action Group
Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation
Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council
Comite Progreso de Lamont
Committee for a Better Arvin
Committee for a Better Shafter
Communities for Sustainable Monterey County
Community Environmental Council
Community Water Coalition
Council for Watershed Health
Defenders of Wildlife
Earth Island Advocates
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
Ebbetts Pass Forest Watch
EcoMalibu
Elfin Forest / Harmony Grove Town Council
Endangered Habitats League
Environment California
Environment in the Public Interest
Environmental Action Committee of West Marin
Environmental Center of San Luis Obispo (ECOSLO)
Environmental Council of Sacramento
Environmental Defense Center
Environmental Defense Fund
Environmental Health Coalition
Environmental Justice Coalition for Water
Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC)
Environmental Water Caucus
Environmental Working Group
Escondido Creek Conservancy
Food & Water Watch
Foothill Conservancy
Forest Unlimited
Forests Forever
Friends of Coyote Hills
Friends of Griffith Park
Friends of Harbors, Beaches and Parks
Friends of Lafferty Park
Friends of Loma Alta Creek
Friends of Northern San Jacinto Valley
Friends of Rose Canyon
Friends of Rose Creek
Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Eel River
Friends of the Gualala River
Friends of the Los Angeles River
Friends of the Mark West Watershed
Friends of the River
Friends of the Swainson’s Hawk
Green Foothills
Greenbelt Alliance
Greenfield Walking Group
Greenspace – The Cambria Land Trust
Grow the San Diego Way
Growers/Vintners for Responsible Agriculture
Heal the Bay
HEART L.A. (Housing Equality & Advocacy Resource Team)
High Sierra Rural Alliance
Hills For Everyone
Laguna Greenbelt, Inc.
LandWatch – Monterey County
LandWatch – San Luis Obispo County
League of Women Voters of San Joaquin County
League of Women Voters of California
League of Women Voters of Diablo Valley
League of Women Voters of Sacramento County
League to Save Lake Tahoe
Los Angeles Audubon Society
Los Angeles Conservancy
Los Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust
Los Padres ForestWatch
Marin Conservation League
MOMS Advocating Sustainability
Moms Advocationg Sustainability
Mono Lake Committee
Mountain Area Preservation
National Audubon Society
National Parks Conservation Association
North County Watch
Northern Sierra Partnership
Ocean Conservancy
Orange County Coastkeeper, Inland Empire Waterkeeper, Coachella Valley Waterkeeper
Pacific Energy Policy Center
Pesticide Action Network North America
Petaluma River Council
Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles
PODER/ People Organizing to Demand Environmental & Economic Rights
Preserve Wild Santee
Preserve Calavera
Preserve Our Rural Communities (San Benito County)
Preserve Rural Sonoma County
Prevention Institute
Protect Monterey County
Protect Rural Placer
Public Interest Coalition
Public Trust Alliance
Redwood Coast Land Conservancy
Resource Renewal Institute
RESPCT (Residents for an Equitable San Pedro Community Today)
Rural Canyons Conservation Fund (signed under Canyon Land Conservation Fund)
Sacramento River Watershed Program
San Francisco Baykeeper
San Francisco Estuary Institute
San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace
Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society
Santa Clarita Organization for Planning and the Environment
Santa Cruz County Greenway
Save Mount Diablo
Save Napa Valley
Save Our Heritage Organisation (SOHO)
Save Our Seashore
Save Our Shores
Save the American River Association
Save the Bay
Save the Park
Save the Redwoods League
Shasta Environmental Alliance
Sierra Club – Kern-Kaweah Chapter
Sierra Club Mother Lode Chapter
Sierra Forest Legacy
Sierra Nevada Alliance
Sierra Watch
Solano County Orderly Growth Committee
Sonoma County Conservation Action
Sonoma County Water Coalition
South Yuba River Citizens League
Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE)
SunFlower Alliance
Surfrider Foundation
Surfrider Foundation San Diego Chapter
The Nature Conservancy
The Public Interest Law Project
The River Project
The Urban Wildlands Group
TRANSDEF (Transportation Solutions Defense and Education Fund)
Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment (CAREs)
Trout Unlimited
TURN-The Utility Reform Network
Valley Of The Moon Alliance
Ventura Citizens for Hillside Preservation
West County Toxics Coalition
Western Center on Law & Poverty
Western Sonoma County Rural Alliance
Wine & Water Watch