Gladwyn d’Souza<p>Pre-pandemic but still true: <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AB617" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AB617</span></a> was designed to address the disproportionate <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PollutionBurden" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PollutionBurden</span></a> and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/RegulatoryFailure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RegulatoryFailure</span></a> in <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/disadvantaged" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>disadvantaged</span></a> communities by provisions of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AB32" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AB32</span></a> and the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CleanAirAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CleanAirAct</span></a>. It was a response to frustrations with the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ClimatePolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimatePolicy</span></a> framework that permitted <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EmissionGrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EmissionGrowth</span></a> outside white and wealthy communities. AB617 companion legislation should be emulated elsewhere.<br /><a href="https://www.brookings.edu/research/climate-policy-environmental-justice-and-local-air-pollution/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">brookings.edu/research/climate</span><span class="invisible">-policy-environmental-justice-and-local-air-pollution/</span></a></p>