"Across Southern CA, freeways that paved over Black and Latino neighborhoods—such as the 5, 10 & 110—were completed, while those proposed to cross whiter, more affluent areas were stopped," writes @latimes. The 110, seen here, cut through South LA, displacing tens of thousands.
In urban planning classes we teach students widenig a highway is supposed to improve mobility and access to opportunity, not drain stormwater into an adjacent community, flooding residents yards and homes. So, why is this happening in Elba, Alabama's Shiloh community? #racism
The @Bullardcenter@TexasSouthern#HBCU Technical Support Team developed a #JUSTICE40 supplemental screening tool that includes race to help ensure underserved communities don't get left out of the billions of federal dollars for EJ and climate. @DSCEJ
Check out a new air quality index developed specifically to reflect respiratory health among children exposed to elevated outdoor air pollution: https://t.co/OAyT6jdaNB
Interested in #EnvironmentalJustice? Join the HAQAST Satellite Data for Environmental Justice Tiger Team, led by @SusanAnenberg and Qian Xiao, with meetings the first Wednesday of every month! @weathergaige
Learn more about the HAQAST Tiger Teams here: https://t.co/7jXUt0cuFH
Check out the new ozone pollution data added to the @CityHealthData dashboard!
Great work with HAQAST PI @silentspring9 helping make this air quality metric easy to access for 750+ US cities!
https://t.co/cw8jCsHHaE
@NASA_HAQAST is finding new & timely ways to produce air pollution data, including the Dashboard's ozone pollution metric. Learn how these data can help city leaders take steps to improve air quality & community resiliency as temperatures continue to rise https://t.co/0tP2pw5lWN
New awning installed today for @GeoBusUCF. How does it look? We think it looks maptastic!!! Can’t wait to show your our plans for this 18 foot wide by 8 foot deep outdoor space! Thanks to our amazing partners Traveling RV Technicians for great work! @ucfsociology@ucfsciences
Thanks for having our @GeoBusUCF crew out to tour the Seminole County Physics Bus. What an amazing mobile lab! We can’t wait to partner and continue to support science’s next generation across our region. Thanks to the @SCPSInfo team for the tour and brainstorming session.
The parking lot after a school board meeting last night in Franklin, the wealthiest place in Tennessee. Parents harassed medical professionals who had spoken in favor of masks in schools. “We know who you are. You can leave freely, but we will find you.”