Posted on 09/19/2015 5:26:32 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 17 (UPI) -- According to a new study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, African Americans and Hispanics are more exposed to health risks like air pollution, toxic waste and a lack of green space.
The study -- a tag-team effort between researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and the California Environmental Protection Agency -- used a new online tool that maps environmental health hazards.
(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...
Working in factories most of my life exposed me to lots of bad stuff.
Funny, I live on Staten Island where one of the largest dumps and highest points on the East Coast has caused respiratory problems to soar. It’s on the south shore, where whitey lives. Far from the black neighborhoods.
Maybe I should do my own study.
The answer is to deliver pollution packages to white households or to send trucks, sort of like the mosquito spraying trucks, around to spray pollution throughout white neighborhoods.
I knew all along that environmental hazards were racist. I just needed someone to tell me that. S/
You can still put in a claim for the widely adverstised Mesothelia 18 Billion dollars. Go for it.
My first over-haul on a Navy ship was pulling out asbestos. I was around it every day while in dry dock. Keep thinking I should put in my claim every time I have a cough. Oh wait, that's a cough due to a cold. But you didn't read here on this forum.
I've also thought about submitting my claim due to alcar poisoning when eating apples. Think those funds are long gone.
I am so sick of the dividing of this country by color, gender, income, social class, etc., I could PUKE.
Guess Berkeley and Calif liberal agency forgot to include, "women and children hardest hit".
"Lack of green space?" Really? And who's fault is that when they crowd together in their ghettoes (oops, PC inner cities).
Anything! that comes out of the socialist/racist/perverse Berkeley studies must be taken when a huge grain salt, and yes, toxic waste as in mind farts.
Berkeley is the eptiome of conclusions firs; cause and effect second.
Boy...I sure am lucky to be a white guy....
I guess I didn't work in that chemical plant for near forty years, raise my own kids, buy my own food, pay my own mortgage, bust my living hump to pay my own taxes, pay my fair share of social security, serve my country during time of war...
I guess I'm really lucky I'm not black, Brown, gray or whatever color their pushing on us lucky white people this month...
What is it about us Americans that we have to be such SAPS..!?!
More evidence of your white privilege. /sarc.
Here in California we have a map that is similar. We also have a Cap and Trade system for taxing producers and redistributing wealth to the poor. Our governor has invited all illegal aliens to our state.
The courts have decided we need high speed rail and from every station we need subsidized public transportation to interconnect bus stops and light rail stops. Wherever there is public transportation we are building high-density housing.
HUD has recently required every city in the U.S. to report yearly on income inequality and housing.
The courts have decided that local zoning codes can be overridden by federal zoning.
The courts have also decided that it is legal for a city to force a developer to build subsidized housing. Here in Los Angeles if a developer builds 10 units, 2 of them have to be for the poor, or the developer has to pay a fine of $200,000.
Bull Obamastuff.
White privilege is alive and well. Just like Man-made Global Warming.
..or more rural Coloradans living near old mines.
Yeah, right.
“The courts have also decided that it is legal for a city to force a developer to build subsidized housing. Here in Los Angeles if a developer builds 10 units, 2 of them have to be for the poor, or the developer has to pay a fine of $200,000.”
I have to wonder how many developers are just paying the $200,000 fine and proceeding to build all higher priced units so that the resulting community will be free of the inherent problems that come with embedding 20% lower income housing into them from the begin. Distributed over ten units, $200,000 would result in an additional $20,000 per unit price increase; certainly doable considering the high cost of homes in California.
Personally, I’m leary of any “study” that refers to its data maps with the term “environmental justice.”
It’s probably just me, but those terms seem to suggest an political agenda might be biasing the selection, collection, and interpretation of the data. Then again, the authors are UC Berkley associated, so maybe they can’t help the way they talk.
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When I was young back in the sixties, the city I lived in (La Crosse, Wi) used to spray for mozzies. It was then possible to walk around at night without being constantly bitten and drained of all your blood.
Then sometime in the seventies the city stopped doing that. The public health officials cited risks with the spraying. It then became more of a challenge on summer nights to avoid getting severely bitten.
About two decades ago they discovered a new strain of encephalitis, La Crosse encephalitis, that was unique to the area.
Since the metro is about 99% white, does that mean health officials were deliberately targeting white people for infection? An argument could me made for that. It would be as bogus as the argument in this article, but it's an argument nevertheless.
SB 535 Disadvantaged Communities (Map)
http://oehha.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Viewer/index.html?appid=dae2fb1e42674c12a04a2b302a080598
This is California’s map. If you zoom in and click on an area it shows the demographics, all the disadvantaged places have a large population of Hispanic.
Below is an article put out by California’s EPA stipulating that the money from our Cap and Tax scheme is to be spent on our governor’s illegal aliens.
http://www.calepa.ca.gov/EnvJustice/GHGInvest/
Greenhouse Gas-Reduction Investments to Benefit Disadvantaged Communities
Disadvantaged communities in California are specifically targeted for investment of proceeds from the State’s cap-and-trade program. These investments are aimed at improving public health, quality of life and economic opportunity in California’s most burdened communities at the same time they’re reducing pollution that causes climate change.
Authorized by the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), the cap-and-trade program is one of several strategies that California uses to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. Funds received from the program are deposited into the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and appropriated by the Legislature. They must be used for programs that further reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
In 2012, the Legislature passed Senate Bill 535 (De León) directing that, in addition to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, a quarter of the proceeds from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund must also go to projects that provide a benefit to disadvantaged communities. A minimum of 10 percent of the funds must be for projects located within those communities. The legislation gives the California Environmental Protection Agency responsibility for identifying those communities.
In October 2014, following a series of public workshops to gather public input, CalEPA released its list of disadvantaged communities for the purpose of SB 535. To inform its decision, CalEPA relied on the California Communities Environmental Health Screening Tool (CalEnviroScreen), a tool that assesses all census tracts in California to identify the areas disproportionately burdened by and vulnerable to multiple sources of pollution.
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Funds are administered by state and local agencies for a variety of greenhouse-gas cutting programs, including energy efficiency, public transit, low-carbon transportation and affordable housing. Guidelines written by the Air Resources Board help these agencies develop programs that meet statutory requirements for reducing emissions while maximizing the benefits to disadvantaged communities.
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