CalEnviroScreen: A pathway to address environmental justice issue in californiaAlexeeff, GeorgeMataka, Arsenio Y
As the heat intensified, drought conditions developed, lasting several years, and becoming particularly severe in California. 农业受到严重影响,这是一个严重的问题,因为加州是全国水果和蔬菜的主要供应地。 Agriculture was heavily impacted, a serious problem since California is a major supplier of fruits an...
Global Environmental Justice Project, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA Dena Montague Corresponding author Correspondence to Dena Montague. Ethics declarations Competing interests The author declares no competing interests Rights and permissions Reprints and permissions About this ...
California California has several important measures that address environmental justice, one of the most significant being the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). CEQA was first passed in 1970, shortly after the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) was passed at the federal level, and is...
L. 2006. "Breathless: schools, air toxics, and envi- ronmental justice in California". Policy Studies Journal, 34(3):337-362.Manuel,Pastor, James Sadd, and Rachel Morello-Frosch. 2005. Reading, Writing, and Breathing: Schools, Air Toxics, and Environm...
In response, several environmental justice-oriented studies explored potential inequities in exposure to arsenic [18, 19] and in enforcement of the arsenic standard [5]. Generally, these studies focused on two types of distributional issues: (1) disparities in environmental harms, such as exposure ...
An April study by the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University found that the majority of Black and Latino neighborhoods that received low scores in a discriminatory federal housing program known as redlining were home to twice as many oil wells as majority white communities. Acc...
The best fenceline monitoring system that we have seen put in place and provides the best quality data on emissions is the recent Chevron Refinery in Richmond, California following the huge fire in 2012 that sent thousands to the hospital. ...
Environmentalists and researchers say greater use of citizen science could help foster long-term collaboration between communities and government while boosting environmental justice, but they are seeking clarity on how citizen data can be used in policymaking and enforcement through either EPA rules or...
We should welcome them in order to effect justice around the climate issues," he said.Masover noted that the federal government should not make "villains of people who are coming into this country." "There's no reason to do that."