Environmental Justice

standing in the doorway of her small apartment eighteen year old should know well below those books out on the murky skies over wilmington she says even as a child she noticed there was something different about her neighborhood eli kantor is awesome it just it's like this now the sake of the events and their client made them clans bassist it hazily that it says wilmington is surrounded by oil refineries and the nation's largest port complex the ports brought ships trains and thousands of trucks spew plumes of exhaust so it's not surprising that this community has the la area is high a statistical risk of cancer from pollution when below those found that out she joined efforts to persuade local officials to do more to clean up wilmington it's not fair for science thank you people like me jo lou of the california environmental rights alliance says many other

low income neighborhoods are awash in pollution including southeast la the northeast san fernando valley the alameda corridor and part of riverside county he says there's no evidence that industry and businesses are deliberately targeting places where people of color live but to use of color and low income residents don't have the type of access to decision makers to stop bad projects and to guarantee that anbar more benefits such as parks but that's beginning to change twenty nine year old publicity night while watches trucks were demonstrating for the port of la just three blocks from the wellington school i called works for communities for a better environment group that helps neighborhoods fight pollution as a result of a lot of activism that's the new orleans is because of a lot of the measures based less cancer risk that the refineries there's a chemical that we've raised doubts bit more more hearings local regulators at the south coast air quality management district recently launched a new

round of environmental justice initiatives one requires some local businesses to further reduce their emissions of toxic pollutant another is a new guide to help cities that better land use decisions by keeping polluters away from schools and hospitals community groups applaud these effort but they want regulators to go further they want and to stop issuing new permits to polluting businesses industry attorney bob why men with leighton and watkins doesn't think that's a good idea we want to avoid penalizing communities that are already being heavily impacted by pollution where it's come from further by taking away jobs if you simply say stop no more growth more no more development then you you lose the resources you need in order to pay for the problem wyman says new and expanding businesses can help pay for a number of pollution cutting proposals that currently lack money he says these programs would clean up things like trucks ships and trains which contribute more

pollution to wilmington and local industry does but wyman says fixing land use problems will be tricky one point of view is when you put all of your manufacturing activity now hear heavy trucking away from where everybody lives or the more you do that the more you burden the transportation system and create a normal prom because of transportation wilmington resident karel dc noah says she's thought about moving away from the port but she can't afford a climate of all income mothers tie you say no and her twelve year old son both have asthma she says for now they're trying to improve the air in wilmington by speaking of regulatory hearings i go you know what's happening over here with a fun place to live but they're encouraged by a hearing they spoke at recently it helped convinced the state to adopt a broad platform for reducing pollution in low income communities in wilmington del says etsy all at nine point three kpcc