Environmental Justice Bill Fails to Pass in California

Inside Climate News: California lawmakers failed to approve Democratic legislation seeking to make the state's largest air quality agency more sympathetic to the poor and minority communities disproportionately affected by air pollution. The vote last month avoids a power shake-up at the powerful South Coast Air Quality Management District.

The bill would have added three board members from environmental justice organizations to the district's 13-member board, ensuring representation from lower-income neighborhoods and communities of color. That would have shifted the power balance toward advocates of stricter clean-air regulation.

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