California environmental justice groups slow to endorse Kamala Harris for president

Within a day of Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign announcement, she received the endorsement of four major environmental justice groups: the League of Conservation Voters Action Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund, the Sierra Club, and Clean Energy for America Action. However, environmental justice groups in Harris’s home state of California have not been as quick to endorse her.

The California Environmental Justice Alliance, Communities for a Better Environment, and the Asian Pacific Environmental Network are dedicated to supporting environmental justice policy in the state of California, but none of them have come out to give Harris their endorsement.