OUR MISSION

Our mission is to achieve environmental justice and healthy, sustainable communities through collective action and the law.

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A donation to CRPE goes directly to improving health, building power, and growing resistance “from the ground up” in environmental justice communities in California’s San Joaquin Valley and beyond.

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CRPE believes that all people deserve the right to live in a safe and healthy environment. Generous support from you allows us to do our grassroots, community-led work better.

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LUKE'S
LEGACY

The Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment (CRPE) was founded by Luke Cole, along with his mentor Ralph Abascal of California Rural Legal Assistance, in 1989. Luke was a visionary leader who helped define the role of law and lawyers in the environmental justice movement.