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Orange County Environmental Justice (OCEJ) is a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic environmental justice organization. Their mission is to advance environmental justice by mobilizing and empowering marginalized community members. In 2018, OCEJ partnered with the University of California, Irvine Department of Public Health, UCI Community Resilience, and Jovenes Cultivando Cambios (Youth Cultivating Changes) to collect soil samples in...

The OC Health Care Agency serves the entire county and is charged with protecting and promoting individual, family, and community through a variety of service areas; most of which are preventive in nature. The HCA's mission is in partnership with community, to deliver sustainable and responsive services that promote population health and equity. The HCA's...

The Orange County Water District (OCWD) is responsible for managing the vast groundwater basin that provides most of northern and central Orange County’s drinking water. As part of its groundwater management, OCWD maintains one of the world’s most advanced aquifer recharge systems to replace the water that is pumped from a variety of wells. South Basin...

South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) is the regulatory agency responsible for improving air quality for large areas of Los Angeles, Orange County, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties, including the Coachella Valley.  The region is home to more than 17 million people–about half the population of the entire state of California. South Coast AQMD’s...

About The City of Santa Ana is joining an emerging nationwide trend where cities are increasingly deciding to reject severe and fatal injuries as a necessary byproduct of multimodal transportation. Santa Ana is taking a hard look at traffic collision patterns citywide and setting the goal to reduce the number of severe and fatal injuries...

The State Water Resources Control Board (the State Water Board) was created by the Legislature in 1967. There are nine Regional Water Quality Control Boards in California. The mission of the Regional Boards is to develop and enforce water quality objectives and implementation plans that will best protect the beneficial uses of the State's waters,...

The role of the DTSC is to protect California's people and the environment from the harmful effects of toxic substances by restoring contaminated resources, enforcing hazardous waste laws, reducing hazardous waste generation, and encouraging the manufacture of chemically safer products. They also regulate the generation, handling, treatment, and disposal of hazardous waste in California, and...

The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) protects and enhances the health of Californians and the State's environment through scientific evaluations that inform, support and guide regulatory and other actions. OEHHA implements the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, commonly known as Proposition 65, and compiles the state’s list of substances...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) mission is to protect human health and the environment. EPA works to ensure that: Americans have clean air, land and water; National efforts to reduce environmental risks are based on the best available scientific information; Federal laws protecting human health and the environment are administered and enforced fairly, effectively...