A ConocoPhillips oil and gas refinery looms over the Wilmington neighbourhood of Los Angeles, a community with one of the highest cancer rates in Southern California.When US President Joe Biden took office in 2021, he put environmental justice — the quest to address pollution and other harms that disproportionately affect the health of marginalized communities —.
Scientists have already worked with regulators at the state and city level to develop screening tools for environmental justice — a movement that has gathered momentum in the wake of national protests against police brutality and racial discrimination after police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, murdered George Floyd two years ago.
“It took a bunch of academics and environmental-justice activists to put something together and break that stalemate,” says Baptista, who worked with state lawmakers to develop the legislation. “It’s going to be a real test of political will once you start saying no to industry.”
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