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Goods Movement Projects and Toxicity: Struggles for Environmental Justice Among Communities in Southern California.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Goods Movement Projects and Toxicity: Struggles for Environmental Justice Among Communities in Southern California./
Author:	Amoah, Isis.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2023,
Description:	146 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 85-06.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International85-06.
Subject:	Environmental law. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30318934
ISBN:	9798381158359

Goods Movement Projects and Toxicity: Struggles for Environmental Justice Among Communities in Southern California.
Amoah, Isis.

Goods Movement Projects and Toxicity: Struggles for Environmental Justice Among Communities in Southern California. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023 - 146 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 85-06.

Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, Long Beach, 2023.

As scholars like David Konisky and Chris Reenock have pointed out, there is no comprehensive federal environmental justice legal framework, and existing regulatory agencies, such as the EPA, struggle to balance intense competing political pressures while carrying out their missions. One result has been the disproportionate environmental risk experienced by marginalized communities, including low-income and racial and ethnic minority communities. In the absence of federal laws to improve environmental conditions for these marginalized communities, President Clinton brought environmental justice onto the agenda of the EPA and other federal agencies with his Executive Order 12898. Nonetheless, community organizations fighting against potentially environmentally harmful projects continued to have only mixed or limited success in protecting low-income and minority residents. In this thesis, I examined two development projects in Southern California, Southern California International Gateway (SCIG) and the I-710 Corridor Projects, to analyze the effects of the absence of federal environmental justice law on the surrounding communities-in particular, how, in the absence of such laws, local community-based environmental groups have struggled to protect their communities from environmental impacts caused by these projects. Specifically, I conducted a document analysis of relevant texts, including environmental advocacy documents, Environmental Impact Reports (EIRs), and legal reports, to understand the approaches used by local environmental groups and to assess how the outcomes of these efforts shed light on the limitations of current environmental law. This analysis found that the absence of a comprehensive federal environmental justice law leaves environmental and community groups with little legal recourse beyond existing environmental protection laws (which focus on eliminating environmental harms but do not address the distribution of those harms) and Civil Rights laws, both of which are inadequate to ensure equal protection for vulnerable communities. However, it also shows the power of community organizing to make substantive progress toward environmental justice despite the hindrances posed by the inadequacy of current environmental justice law. These findings contribute to the debate over environmental justice and environmental justice laws and support David Konisky's suggestion that the U.S. needs a comprehensive environmental justice legal framework that is applied evenly, and fairly so marginalized communities are protected from environmental risks.

ISBN: 9798381158359Subjects--Topical Terms:

560666
Environmental law.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Activism

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