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Environmental Equity focuses on the emerging green economy in order to make sure that communities of color not only have a clean environment, but also benefit from the economic opportunities made possible by environmental efforts.
Greenlining’s Environmental Equity team often highlights the unjustly high levels of asthma and other pollution related illnesses in California’s communities of color, problems that will only get worse with an increasingly severe climate crisis. We also know that for various reasons older, high-polluting and fuel inefficient vehicles…
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Last week, we met with California Environmental Protection Agency Secretary (Cal/EPA) Matthew Rodriguez to discuss the California Environmental Screen (CalEnviroScreen). The CalEnviroScreen is a tool that focuses both on environmental and socioeconomic indicators to calculate the most polluted zip… Continue reading 
In a pointed editorial today, the Sacramento Bee tells California legislators to reject Gov. Brown’s attempt to “borrow” money from the auctions of carbon permits authorized under the state’s cap-and-trade program. That money goes into a Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund… Continue reading Continue reading 
Yesterday the California Air Resources Board voted Greenlining’s own Ryan Briscoe Young onto its AB 32 Environmental Justice Advisory Committee! While Greenliners are no strangers to this type of role, we’re particularly excited about this recognition because of its critical… Continue reading 
Last week my colleagues Miya Yoshitani and Bill Gallegos penned a column that highlights a disturbing yet all too familiar tactic that is being employed by polluters in California – Astroturfing. This term refers to industry groups, in this case… Continue reading 
