California bets on an obscure tool to replace clean air authority Trump revoked

State updates pollution mapping tool to identify communities most at risk - Los Angeles Wave Newspaper Group

By Selen Ozturk Contributing Writer SAN FRANCISCO — With low-income communities and communities of color facing growing pollution burdens, California has expanded a tool to identify where people are disproportionately affected and how. CalEnviroScreen, developed by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, is an interactive pollution tracking map that combines environmental, health and socioeconomic data sets to show which…

California bets on an obscure tool to replace clean air authority Trump revoked

When a package arrives at your door, it has likely traveled through a chain of ports, railyards and warehouses throughout the state. All those ships, trains and trucks leave behind a trail of diesel exhaust as they go, driving some…