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Mili Trujillo Principe

Project Mentor Dr. Paul Almeida

21 June 2023

Environmental Justice in Alameda County, California

What is the Environmental Justice? According to the Environmental Protection Agency

(EPA) Environmental justice (EJ) “is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people

regardless of ethnicity, color, origin, and social status regardless of the development,

implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies” (epa.gov)

Some advocates and movements in favor of reducing greenhouse emissions have found the

ecological incidence of human activities with the increase of population, industrialization and

globalization, which leads to climate change. Due to climate change, the ecosystem disbalance

has been causing tremendous ravages to the ecosystem. In recent years, global warming has been

discussed by governors worldwide signing COP 20 agreement in 2015 where all countries are

committed to reducing greenhouse emissions and keeping data monitoring. Environmental issues

for many people is unseen and unconscious, and climate change is a complicated issue and how

it connects to all of us. Due to the exponential growth rate of population in the last century, from

1 billion to 8 billion, agricultural practices have changed from pre-industrial to industrial in order

to feed people. This leads me to formulate the following questions: What do the governments do

to prevent the impact of agriculture pollution? Are the current policies issued by the federal/statal

government effective in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the United States? Why are

people of the minority the most affected? How environmental justice is linked with racial

inequalities? Do laws approve to protect the environment implemented? To answer these

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questions, I will search literature and statistics, which leads me to conclude that America was

able to establish the ecological incidence of greenhouse emissions. While the American

government subsidizes industrial agriculture, they also pass laws in favor to protect the

environment.

 Causes and effects

 Type of population

 Black

 Hispanic communities

 White communities

 . environmental policy/government

 Conflict/mobilization

 Impacts

 Relevant government actors vs Company names or state enterprises:

In the 1980s, the concept of Enviromental justice was coined by a movement who go

Environmental Justice

Environmental: relating to the environment in which people, animals,

and plants live:
Justice: fairness in the way people are dealt with:

1. Social displaced
2. Racial
3. Economic

Effect
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Inadequate access to healthy food, inadequate transportation, air and water pollution, and unsafe
homes.

Solutions

Effort to make everyone’s environment clean, safe and healthy.

Conclusions

Recomendations

Appendix

Appendix 01

Cuando hablas defrente que environmental justice is racial inequalities”

First thing first, environmental issue is an unseen and unconscius problem, so the objective is make
people aware of this in practical terms. Then the consequences affecting minority because of zone
location, etc, etc.

“more affected are less responsible “

Introduction

Who cause /damage / the environment

Who are the most affected

Marco legal

Marco Teorico

How do we combat environmental injustice ?

environmental protection, socioeconomic development, and radical climate action.

climate crisis, socioeconomic inequality, and the failure of policymaking architecture structured in line
with the dominant modes of economic governance
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academics, policymakers, practitioners, and civil society activists engaged in climate justice
issues.

North

-Not proteccion
- Race
- Policy
- Low income and minority
- Lead poiso
- Social justice

Co2

How is linked to minority

Impact?
environmental justice program conducts a number of activities for stakeholders and host
communities near our sites
Many environmental justice issues revolve around issues of environmental risk
The U.S. Department of Energy
civil rights with environmental protection
those who have historically been excluded from environmental decision making, traditionally
minority, low-income, and American Indian and Alaska Native communities, have the same
access to environmental decision makers, decision-making processes, and the ability to make
reasoned contributions to decision-making processes as any other individuals.

Socio-economical Impacts