In early January, California released the updated version of its pollution-screening tool, CalEnviroScreen. The new data indicate that Barrio Logan, Logan Heights and National City remain among the top five to ten percent of communities in the state most impacted by pollution. Environmental Health Coalition (EHC), the only environmental justice organization in the San Diego region, says the most up-to-date information spotlights the neighborhoods that have long lived with an unfair burden of pollution and demand immediate action from local governments and regulatory agencies in 2017.
CalEnviroScreen combines environmental, health, and socioeconomic information to identify communities most affected by pollution. Since the last version, released in 2014, the state has added new factors to measure cardiovascular disease and housing cost burden, as well as incorporated air-monitoring data from the border region to more thoroughly evaluate air quality in border communities.
To view the latest version of CalEnviroScreen click here. To learn more about EHC’s efforts to achieve environmental justice in the San Diego/Tijuana region, click here.
To read more of the Environmental Health Coalition's post, please click here.
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