Project website: http://www.oxy.edu/departments/ess/

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Project website http//www.oxy.edu/departments/es
s/
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A General Picture of the Model
Organizing
Philanthropy
Community Health
Research
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The L.A. Collaborative
Outreach, organizing, and mobilization
Receive litigation monies
Communities for a Better Environment
Liberty Hill
Fiscal agent - funds
Issue identi- fication strategic
planning
TA for new groups
Regrant to grassroots groups
Convene groups for learn- ing in EJ Institute
Community training and leadership
development
Community Health
Coordinate collaborative
Public policy voice
Research for outreach policy change
Making the case for funds attn.
Framework studies that demonstrate the case
First tier fundamental research
Action research timely op-eds
Occidental, UCSC, Brown
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Researching Environmental Justice and Community
Health

• Demonstrating Disparities

• Analyzing Determinants of Disparities

• Understanding Evolution of Contemporary Pattern

• Documenting Potential Health and Other Risks

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Is There Environmental Racism?

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But Income Also is Highly Correlated

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Teasing Out Causes Requires Multivariate
Analysis

• Income, Land Use, and Manufacturing Employment
  Matter
• But Race Still Has an Independent and Important
  Effect
• And TSDFs Actually in Areas of Denser Population
• But What About Other Hazards?

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Distribution of TRI Releases and Race in
Metropolitan Los Angeles Area
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For TRI Facilities . . .

• Income, Land Use, and Manufacturing Presence May
  Matter
• But Race Still Has an Independent and Important
  Effect
• And Degree of Toxicity -- the facilities with
  carcinogens -- is Correlated with Race
• But Which Came First?

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Significant Differences at Time of Siting . . .

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But Similar Shifts Afterward . . .

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High Capacity Hazardous Waste TSDFs and
Ethnic Churning, 1970-1990
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How About Air Pollution? Lifetime Cancer Risk
from Ambient Air Pollution in Southern
California
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As Before, It Isnt Just Income
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Environmental Risks are Unequal for Children As
Well
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Public School Academic Performance Index and
Estimated Cumulative Respiratory Risk From
Ambient Air Toxics for LAUSD
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The Disparities Can Have Consequences for
Academic Performance
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Effects Hold in a Multivariate Analysis

• Scores are Lower Even When You Control for School
  Poverty, Teacher Quality, and Other Factors
• Up to Ten Percent of Racial Score Difference
  Could Be Due to Environmental Stress
• Policy Implications as the State Launches
  School-building Effort
• But It Must Be Getting Better, Right?

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Is It Getting Better? Pattern of TRI
Facilities in California by Ethnicity for 2000

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Different Demographics, Different Environment
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Research and Advocacy in Collaboration
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Research and Advocacy Guidelines

• Research Decision Mechanism
• Maintaining Rigor, Relevance, Reach
• Academic Publications, Popular Articles, Policy
  Interventions

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EJs Future in the State

• Increasing recognition by all groups that
  environmental inequities are common

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EJs Future in the State

• Increasing awareness that communities of color
  are environmental allies

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EJs Future in the State

• Environmental justice raises broader issues of
  equity in the distribution of opportunities

• It can build new bases for common ground and new
  policies are on the agenda