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RECORD NUMBER: 44 OF 1093

Main Title Air Pollution and Environmental Justice: Integrating Indicators of Cumulative Impact and Socio-Economic Vulnerability into Regulatory Decision-Making.
Author M. Pastor
CORP Author California State Air Resources Board, Sacramento. Research Div.; California Environmental Protection Agency, Sacramento.; California Univ., Santa Cruz.
Year Published 2010
Report Number CARBRA-04-308
Stock Number PB2010-110796
Additional Subjects Air pollution control ; Regulations ; Environmental impact ; Economic impact ; Vulnerability ; Communities ; Socioeconomic status ; Emission sources ; Exposure ; Air quality ; Health effects ; Air toxics ; Hazards ; California ; Decision making ; Research projects ; Environmental justice
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NTIS  PB2010-110796 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
This project sought to develop diverse methodological approaches to address environmental justice (EJ) concerns of relevance to air pollution regulation in California. The project consisted of several interlocking research projects, including: (1) a landscape analysis of environmental hazard and air pollution burden disparities in the Bay Area; (2) development of an Environmental Justice Screening Method (EJSM) to identify areas of environmental justice concern with regard to the cumulative impacts of hazard proximity, air pollution expo sure and estimated health risk, and social vulnerability; (3) the implementation of the EJSM pollution exposure to evaluate the hypothetical siting of a power plant facility; (4) a statewide analysis of the association between ambient pollution exposures and adverse perinatal outcomes; (5) the implementation of a community-based participatory ground truthing research project to evaluate the coverage of emissions inventory databases of localized emission sources and sensitive receptors and to build community confidence in the research and regulatory process.