Sona Mohnot

Director for Climate Equity, Climate Resilience

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Sona Mohnot

Director for Climate Equity, Climate Resilience

Sona Mohnot (she/her/hers) comes to us from New Orleans, and recently moved to the Bay Area to work on environmental equity issues. She became interested in environmental equity after witnessing the disproportionate environmental burdens that communities of color face in New Orleans, especially after Hurricane Katrina and the B.P. oil spill. Sona interned at several environmental nonprofits throughout law school and realized that she wanted to pursue a career in public interest environmental law. As the Associate Director of Climate Equity, she looks forward to advocating for environmental equity and learning how to effectively empower communities of color.

Climate Equity Policy Staff

The Greenlining Institute signed onto a comment letter signed by over 70 environmental justice and equity groups around the country. The letter urged the White House Council on Environmental Quality to follow leading examples of environmental and economic justice screening tools at the state level. It also included recommendations for specific additional metrics to include in the criteria across many dimensions including climate change, clean energy and energy efficiency, clean transit, and reduction and remediation of legacy pollution. The letter includes recommendations on how to better represent special populations including Native American tribes, Alaskan Natives, and other rural Alaskans, Native Hawaiians, and other Pacific Islanders. The letter recommended making the definitions more specific to avoid diluting the impact of the tool. This is essential to making sure that the tool accurately identifies and directs investments to those who are most impacted by pollution.

Comment Letter here.

Sona Mohnot

Director for Climate Equity, Climate Resilience

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