Fresh Air Vallejo invited community leaders and advocates together for a city-wide conversation regarding the start of EJ4Vallejo — Environmental Justice for the city — at Vallejo’s Norman King Center Wednesday night. In what will be an 18-month project, inviting a series of community conversations and educational meetings, Fresh Air Vallejo hopes to garner a stronger sense of ongoing environmental injustices occurring right here in Vallejo. The project comes at the receipt of the Windward Fund Environmental Justice Data Grant, which outlines the criteria for collecting data on the Vallejo community, in an effort to understand the environmental impacts and the challenges that they pose. Per the recent approval of bill SB1000, several cities throughout California — including Vallejo — are required to have an environmental justice element in their general plan. The goal of Wednesday’s launch was to get the word out and inform residents about the basics of environmental justice.