An early look at plug-in electric vehicle adoption in disadvantaged communities in CaliforniaElectric vehiclesDisadvantaged communitiesEnvironmental justiceUsed vehiclesPrior research on plug-in electric vehicle
by Mary Hardin,University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles at dusk. Credit: haykatomts/Pixaba Historically disadvantaged communities in Los Angeles County are at risk of getting left behind in the transition to lower-carbon energy sources and energy-efficient technologies, according to a new ...
We focus on the San Joaquin Valley, the region with the largest concentration of rural disadvantaged communities in California, many of which are surrounded by the region’s dominant industry, agriculture. The San Joaquin Valley has been described as a region where “Flint is everywhere” (Real,...
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California, USA; bKU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; cXinhua Hospital Affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China; dShaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China; eSouthwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China; fShanghai Jiao Tong University School of ...
and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, in addition to the 50 states. 3 These include, for example, the Even Start, Improving Teacher Quality State Grant, Educational Technology State Grant, Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities, and 21st ...
In California, for example, water systems with fewer than 15 connections are known as State Small Water systems, while those with a greater number of connections are classified as Community Water Systems (California State Water Resources Control Board 1995). Many of these small communities need ...
Our paper contributes to this discussion by analyzing the formal representation of small disadvantaged communities in the 2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act in California. Employing primary and secondary data, we model the likelihood of representation in the state's new Groundwater Sustainability ...
Nearly two-thirds of the $1,362 billion generated in last year's cap-and-trade auctions are to benefit disadvantaged communities in California under legislation Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed Sept. 14. At an event in Fresno, Brown signed A.B. 1613, directing state agencies to invest the $...
In poor communities in the United States crime in the 1980s and 1990s was not an aberrant or peripheral activity but rather a normal component of economic and social life for many young persons. The massive involvement of young men in crime affects the national well-being. It harms the ...