Southern California Chinese American Environmental Protection Association

southern california chinese environmental protection association (aka sccaepa) is a nonprofit professional organization, the association was founded in 1991, whose purpose is to promote environmental awareness in the chinese community knowledge, improve communication between members, to participate in and serve the environmental community and the chinese community. the association has more than 350 members, most of them are working in the united states government agencies, academia, and environmental consulting company, including scientists, engineers and government commissioner, more than 90% of the members have master's or doctoral degree.