Ethan Elkind interviewed by The Real News Network, Sept. 11, 2016
S.B. 32 is a groundbreaking law on climate change in greenhouse gas reduction. But A.B. 197 is really groundbreaking in a different way. For the first time now, we’re really trying to address this sort of environmental injustice that you’re referring to, which is the idea that we have a lot of low-income communities of color who disproportionately get the negative effects of pollution and also are the ones most at risk as climate change worsens.