Amy Vanderwanker is senior policy strategist
at the California Environmental Justice Alliance.
Posted on 12/20/2017 12:13:36 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
As a coalition of community organizations working in low-income communities of color most impacted by pollution, we have been proud to support California’s ambitious goals on climate change.
But the state’s leadership depends on demonstrating in words and actions that our climate policies protect and benefit our most vulnerable communities. This is a moral imperative, a legal mandate and a political necessity.
Last week, the California Air Resources Board approved a roadmap to achieving the 2030 greenhouse gas reduction targets, but unfortunately it does not say how it will avoid disproportionate impacts in low-income and minority communities.
The air resources board’s plan does not clearly lay out how it will reduce emissions in these communities, or how the reauthorized cap-and-trade program will achieve most the 2030 greenhouse gas reductions. Further, the plan undermines one of the most important environmental justice policies, Assembly Bill 197, which requires the board to prioritize emission reductions. That is not only the most effective way to cut greenhouse gases, it also reduces air pollution in poor and minority communities.
The board must follow the intent of AB 197 and propose a set of prioritized emission reductions. It needs to publicly provide data and analysis about greenhouse gas and air pollutant trends in real time. It must also start talking to communities about the impacts of oil extraction and production on their health and quality of life.
These are just a few of the many steps to integrate environmental justice into meeting our 2030 targets. By doing so, we can protect vulnerable communities and create climate policies that will lead the world.
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Amy Vanderwanker is senior policy strategist
at the California Environmental Justice Alliance.
Wanker say what?
Amy is a communist. She’d herd every one of us off the camps if she could.
Her surname is fitting.
What's that, Ms. Government? If we give you control of every aspect of our lives and all our money you MAY be able to help? Here! Take it! Please save us!
Yeah, right, sure...
Well, Amy...if you insist...LOL
it is always good to believe in something, but environmental justice is not justice.
sometimes i feel sorry for the SJW, but then i realize they will kill millions of people, to save a planet that does not need saving.
In Dutch/German her name means “From the Wanker.”
Yeah Amy let’s outsource all those jobs to third world shat holes, that will get rid of pollution, then pay billions to climate change frauds so that ‘your communities’ can remain unemployed and wholly dependent on government troughs. Globalism and socialism in action.
Oh look a nose ring so she can be lead around by it
I see that she is wearing polyester. Does she know that comes from oil? Does she know that Kalifornia produces oil?
Obviously, this LIB is complicit in expanding nitwittery throughout our culture.
That’s rich. Poor people are far more polluting in their practices than many others. We have poor neighbors with all sorts of trash, burning all sorts of crap, doing all sorts of nasty stuff to the creeks. Nothing happens to them.
Who writes the laws for "environmental justice"? Who are the judges? Who enforces "environmental justice"? Who decides the penalties?
The answer to all these questions is: Marxists.
Didn’t think you were supposed to get offspring from that, just hairy palms, or go blind.
You know, when someone has a nose ring it’s All I can look at. Really. I’m not even shy about it. It’s right in the middle of their face! How am I Not supposed to stare it if I’m talking to them? They put it there so people would see it, right? I always ask if it hurts. And what if you sneeze?
Redistribution scam, that’s all the climate hoax is about.
What a great Leftist/Communist/Socialist name for an organization.
California, pinko capital of the free (and not so free) world.
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