April 14, 2026
The community of Bloomington, California, banded together to stop construction of a massive new warehouse — and won.
Nearly 40% of the nation’s consumer goods pass through California’s Inland Empire on the way to your doorstep. Families there face higher rates of asthma, heart disease, cancer, and even early death because of pollution from the warehouse industry.
Earthjustice partnered with the community in Bloomington to fight back — and win. We will always fight to protect people over polluters.
Thank you to Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice for sharing video footage.
About the Legal Work
Earthjustice represented People’s Collective for Environmental Justice, Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice, and Center for Biological Diversity, in a suit joined by Sierra Club.
They filed this lawsuit in December 2022 against the County of San Bernardino for its failure to comply with the California Environmental Quality Act and fair housing laws.
The Bloomington Business Park would add nearly 1,300 diesel truck trips per day to an area already referred to as a “diesel death zone.” An influx of other massive warehouses in the region contribute to the new project area’s overall pollution burden that is 94% higher than the rest of California.
Local land use decisions, including those made by the county, have dramatically transformed the landscape in recent years, as the number of industrial warehouses in San Bernardino and Riverside counties has multiplied from 162 in 1975 to 4,299 in 2021. The result is a logistics hub so large that it is visible from outer space.
In 2024, a Superior Court judge ruled in favor of community and environmental groups, determining that San Bernardino County’s CEQA analysis was faulty across a swath of areas, including the range of alternatives considered, air quality, greenhouse gas emissions, energy and noise impacts.
About the Right to Zero
Earthjustice’s Right To Zero campaign — first launched in California in 2017, and since expanded to New York, the D.C. region, and beyond — is working to accelerate this clean energy, clean air transition.
From cars and buses to kitchens and living rooms, from industrial plants to ports and our power grid, the change has begun, and we’ll all feel the benefits.