Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Environmental Justice

Environmental Justice Members Resign from CARB Task Force on Carbon Offsets

By Melanie Curry | Feb 11, 2021 | No Comments

Task force is about to issue a report recommending ways to expand the problematic but profitable offsets program. Advocates wanted to focus on ways to make it work for the climate and environment.

Image from UC Davis Center for Regional Change

Op-Ed: Finally, a Chance for Environmental Justice

By Gerald Torres and Kathleen Rogers | Jan 8, 2021 | No Comments

The new federal administration promises to join arms with state and local advocates and give leadership to this environmental justice efforts.

By Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz/Yes! Magazine, 2020. For sources see article cited

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California’s Efforts to Reduce Pollution, Greenhouse Gases Are Inextricable from Environmental Justice

By Melanie Curry | Nov 24, 2020 | No Comments

Yes! Magazine offers a short history and explainer for cap-and-trade and its EJ issues

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A Quick Look at the Biden-Harris Clean Energy Plan, and its California Connections

By Melanie Curry | Nov 12, 2020 | No Comments

Policy recommendations advise replicating some of California's best programs, but time is precious.

New “Everyone In” Video Shows Homelessness’ Disproportionate Harm to Black Angelenos

By Joe Linton | Aug 19, 2020 | No Comments

Everyone In tells stories of Black unhoused persons, and offers solutions, including funding from the November Reimagine L.A. ballot measure

Opinion: Urbanism Is Complicit in Infra-Structural Racism — And Reparations Have a Place in the Built Environment

By Destiny Thomas | Jul 27, 2020 | No Comments

Municipal placemaking has long been an active effort to displace and erase Black people — and it is time to begin a process for atonement, says Destiny Thomas in an exclusive op-ed for Streetsblog.

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