OUR VALUES
The values of the Coalition for Environmental Equity and Economics (CEEE) are centered on community power-building, environmental and economic justice, social equity, and energy democracy.
Those values are intricately woven into the justice fabric of self-determination. That means giving communities the autonomy to decide:
Where our energy comes from
Who owns and controls that energy, and
How the energy system impacts our community’s economic and public health.
Specifically, we believe in the following social and economic principles:
First, we believe in energy democracy. That means energy autonomy and consumer equity for every California community of every social and economic status.
We believe consumers should be free of the grip of corporate monopolies and their abusive and profit-driven business practices and policy proposals.
We believe all communities, especially those most affected by the negative consequences of the fossil fuel/energy grid economy (on-site pollution and high energy prices), should be free to choose how they generate their energy and what its source is.
We believe that Wall Street utilities and others should never weaponize economic and social equity as a deceptive tactic to manipulate public sentiment.
We believe working families and environmental justice consumers should never be burdened with funding power grid maintenance and a guaranteed 10% profit on unnecessary grid expansion.
We believe that utility-driven policies such as fixed rates and cutting NEM consumers’ credits are simply deceptive ploys by the monopoly utilities to protect their guaranteed profits.
Finally, we believe in the right of Califonia’s indigenous nations to preserve their ancestral lands from invasive energy projects such as utility-scale solar farms.