California has a similar program that's been in the works since 2012. That year,Senate Bill 535required that designated disadvantaged communities would get minimum funding levels from the state to help improve public health and reduce pollution, climate change and their impacts. Those designated comm...
Frontline communities 1. Introduction Rural disadvantaged communities in California experience a disproportionate share of the most pressing social, environmental, and economic challenges. These challenges co-occur creating a compounding effect that leads to structural conditions of extreme inequity that are ...
PM2.5is an air pollutant that is widely associated with adverse health effects, and which tends to be disproportionately located near low-income communities and communities of color. We applied a community-engaged research approach to assess the distribution of PM2.5concentrations in the context of ...