Environmental Justice Comes of Age with New Science-Based Screening Tools

This past April, the state of California released a first-of-its-kind statewide environmental health-screening tool.  Known as CalEnviroScreen, 1.0, the tool seeks to identify those California communities most burdened by pollution and most vulnerable to its effects.  The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), which developed the tool jointly … Read more »