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 Californias ambitious goals on climate change.
But the states 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 boards 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Yes, redistribution and “CONTROL”!
Those are the two favorite things in the minds of the Leftists.
To quote Ben Franklin, fart proudly.
You will comply.
Dirty little secret is that urbanites are the biggest polluters ever. I used to own rental property in the inner city. I'd tell my kids to go pick up the front yard--they'd get it nice and clean--someone else's chip bags and wrappers in a large trash bag. 30 minutes later it looked as though they hadn't picked up a thing.
I bet she doesn’t shave her legs and her armpits look like she has a beaver in a headlock.
Lip rings are even worse. They give me the creeps.
I WANT TO KNOW HOW THEY PICK THE BOOGERS OUT WITH THAT THING IN THE WAY, DOES IT HURT?
Red, green, blue, yellow, magenta, pink, black, white, chartreuse, which color is it?
Why don’t you do something constructive with your life, Amy? Volunteer at your local animal shelter.
WHAT climate plan? Tax and tax, spend and spend, regulate and regulate, all to no visible effect, save so much impoverishment of the whole economy, that there shall be nothing left to provide even the least means to adapt to the harshness of either winter’s blasts of cold and snow, or summer’s sweltering waves of heat and drought.
Somehow this does not seem to be the best application of human intelligence and initiative.
I’m banned from commenting on the Sac Bee website......LOL!
I’d really hate to be a guy named “VanderWANKER”....
When they say “justice” they mean “we gonna take your money, Whitey.”
Uh,
No it doesnt
Hey lady, the best thing that can happen to a depressed area (full of low income families) is to have a filthy nasty factory built there.
Guess what filthy dirty factories bring JOBS. Jobs bring stores and other businesses that are also jobs that lift families out of poverty.
When families are lifted out of poverty their neighborhoods get better.
You social justice pinko get a life and let others live theirs.
Everything they propose ends up driving up the cost of everything from energy to food, water, everything. Is she really just figuring out that this doesn’t bother her rich liberal friends, but makes everything harder for the poor and middle class?
Justice would be all of the #FakeScience Glowbull Warmers put in stocks for people to throw rotten tomatoes at.
Anytime “justice” has a modifier, it is not justice.
LOL. I didn't even notice the nose ring. I was trying to figure out why her right earring looks like a rotten banana, and the left one like a goldfish.
Here I am, just beginning to have an inkling of what is meant by Social Justice, never mind Social Justice Warrior, and the libs toss out the term: Environmental Justice.
Rats! Now I’ll never catch up.
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