Environmental & Social Justice

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Xantha Bruso: Developing autonomous vehicle policy strategies to advance safety while enabling innovation

As the policy manager for autonomous vehicle policy at AAA Northern California, Nevada and Utah, Fellow Xantha Bruso is developing and implementing AAA’s AV policy strategy to advance AV safety while enabling innovation. She also supports strategic initiatives to accelerate AV deployment and foster mobility solutions.
May 21, 2019
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Balazs lead scientist on framework and tool for evaluating California's progress in achieving human right to water

The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) announces the release of A Framework and Tool for Evaluating California's Progress in Achieving the Human Right to Water. This draft report describes an approach for evaluating the adequacy of water quality, accessibility and affordability across California's community water systems. The report also shows how this approach can help water systems, regulators and communities understand and address the challenges their water systems may be facing.
May 1, 2019
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Johnson in video on ocean conservation as a social justice issue

Fellow Ayana Johnson was featured in a "Strong Opinions Loosely Held" video on how ocean conservation is a social justice issue. Watch the video on Facebook
January 10, 2019
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Johnson writes op-ed on importance of young voters and voters of color to climate policy

Editor's note: The following opinion piece by Fellow Ayana Johnson first appeared on The Hill's website.
January 10, 2019
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Monitoring air quality and mapping border environmental justice issues

The goals of the project between Environmental Health Coalition (EHC) and Switzer Fellow Dr.
December 12, 2018
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Matsuoka publishes report chapter on importance of partnerships in cleaning up freight transportation pollution

Fellow Martha Matsuoka co-authored the chapter "Working Together to Clean Up Freight Transportation" in the new report from the Poverty & Race Research Action Council, Strategies for Health Justice: Lessons from the Field.
December 10, 2018
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Antos interviewed on links between homelessness and water

Infinite Earth Radio, a weekly podcast featuring thought leaders and change agents who are building smarter more sustainable and more equitable communities and businesses, interviewed Fellow Mike Antos on the intersection of homelessness and water management. Listen to episode 106 (part 1) Listen to episode 107 (part 2)
October 10, 2018
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Richter publishes on sixty years of research and inaction on fluorinated compounds

Lauren Richter has published an article in Social Studies of Science, "Non-stick science: Sixty years of research and (in)action on fluorinated compounds" about how the risks of PFASs have been both structurally hidden and unexamined by existing regulatory and industry practice. Abstract
October 2, 2018
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McClintock publishes on urban agriculture, racial capitalism, and resistance in the settler‐colonial city

Recent scholarship on urban agriculture (UA)—the production of food in cities—argues that UA can both undergird and resist capitalist accumulation, albeit often at different spatio‐temporal scales. Scholarship that explicitly examines how UA, capitalist development, and racial difference work through one another, however, is less extensive. In this review, Fellow Nathan McClintock proposes that the lens of racial capitalism can elucidate UA's contradictory motivations and outcomes.
September 10, 2018