Minority Communities Will Suffer Most If California Suspends Its Climate Law
source: http://solveclimate.com/blog/20100414/study-minority-communities-suffer-most-if-california-s...
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If California’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction law, AB 32, is suspended or poorly implemented, communities of color and poor neighborhoods will suffer the most, according to a new report from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
This is in large part due to co-pollutants like PM10 (particulate matter of 10 micrometers or less), which can cause respiratory problems and come from the refineries and power plants that AB 32 will regulate.
As the report points out, suspending AB 32 puts much more at stake than halting climate change.
Several studies have established that people of color and the poor suffer greater impacts of climate change than other populations in the United States and that high toxic emissions in non-attainment areas in California, those not compliant with federal Clean Air Act standards, are costing the state, and its taxpayers, hundreds of millions of dollars in health care. ...
http://solveclimate.com/blog/20100414/study-minority-communities-suffer-most-if-...
This is in large part due to co-pollutants like PM10 (particulate matter of 10 micrometers or less), which can cause respiratory problems and come from the refineries and power plants that AB 32 will regulate.
As the report points out, suspending AB 32 puts much more at stake than halting climate change.
Several studies have established that people of color and the poor suffer greater impacts of climate change than other populations in the United States and that high toxic emissions in non-attainment areas in California, those not compliant with federal Clean Air Act standards, are costing the state, and its taxpayers, hundreds of millions of dollars in health care. ...
http://solveclimate.com/blog/20100414/study-minority-communities-suffer-most-if-...
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