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The Engineering Environmental Justice Lab and Ezrach Brain Trust Association will partner with faith- and community-based organizations, educational institutions, and workforce centers. The community-based air monitoring network will provide hyperlocal, real-time air quality data to increase community education and awareness of air quality as well as support advocacy for interventions and mitigation strategies, thereby improving environmental justice. The green workforce training program will expose Leimert Park youth and residents to green career pathways, ensuring the community is part of the rapidly growing green economy. The training program will foster economic empowerment by educating and equipping youth and residents in green careers critical to a clean and just transition.
The Engineering Environmental Justice Lab will estimate the downstream impact of each fleet electrification scenario on emissions in two highway corridors, and then model the effect of emission changes on near-roadway air quality. The scenarios will be informed by focus groups held with community members and transit agencies. Our project team is partnering with community-based organizations in Los Angeles and Atlanta: EVNoire, Clean Cities Georgia, and Integrated Solutions. This study is funded by the Sloan Foundation.
In addition to reallocating land, other equitable outcomes could be achieved through programs or policies that support access for priority populations to economic resources and amenities on public land such as land trusts, greenspace, public charging stations, the expansion of high-speed internet, mitigating environmental hazards, and access to employment in sectors that build and maintain the state’s infrastructure, in conformance with state law. Our project team will develop scenarios for an equity and transformative justice-based policy to release/relinquish surplus land to Tribal communities and other underserved communities. This project will provide other direct and meaningful benefits from state land relinquishment or transportation project development for priority populations. Performance measures will be developed to determine the impact of each policy scenario to benefit priority populations.
