South LA community emissions reduction plan
South Los Angeles Community Emissions Reduction Plan; can be useful for pointers when building the AB617 case for Santa Ana
Fieldnote Mar 20 2023 - 6:18am
AB617 meeting
South LA
March 9th 2023
Asking community members about stories in south LA (SLA) and any initiatives they are taking
Air Pollution, human health and environmental injustice
Zotero bibliography: connecting pollution, health, and social Indicators as a measure of environmental injustice
Fieldnote Mar 10 2023 - 2:44pm
Jill started by discussing Environmental injustice
Envt equalities also stem from well-intended advocates in the non-profit sector
EiJ Interview with Naomi Yoder, 2.7.2023
EiJ Interview with Naomi Yoder, 2.7.2023
EiJ Santa Ana Stakeholder Meeting 1.31.23
Meeting notes:
Introductory remarks by Kim Fortun:
Fieldnote Jan 29 2023 - 8:21pm
AQMD Environmental Justice Advisory Group meeting
27th Jan 2023, 12:00 pm, Zoom
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maryclare.crochiere"In the interest of sustainable and socially legitimate solutions, arguably decisions to even the technical responses to disasters should not be left to scientists and engineers alone"
This statement is very thought-provoking and is not exactly expected in a research article - that a scientist's or engineer's decision should be influenced or editied by those without such specific education or expertise.
-balancing point between safety and profitability
-disaster did not happen as a chain of events that made it bound to occur at some point, it happened on a system that was in good shape
-over regulation of the industry and workers results in a lack of flexibility and therefore an inability to be creative in emergency situations
-need emergency response team to be skilled professionally and socially, but on a low budget - and very importantly - cooperation from nuclear corporations
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maryclare.crochiereThe film goes through the lives of those in the emrgency room of a hospital: the doctors, nurses, patients, families. It looked at how some families don't have any choice other than to go to the ER, which makes the wait times longer. It shows how the field is different than the doctors thought when going into it, but it is still rewarding and they can change lives. It shows holes in the system and how easy it is for people to fall through the cracks, especially if they do not have insurance or a PCP. There is stress on everyone involved to keep people moving but making sure nobody is forgotten. Traumas also bump those waiting farther down the list.
The literature presented here has tried to focus on impacts of human health owing to air pollution to better measure environmental injustice.