The Color of Carbon: How the EPA Clean Power Rule Could Help Communities of Color
In last Friday's post, Pastor and Morello-Frosch offer a compelling analysis of the proposed Rule's effects through a climate justice and public health lens. The authors point out that lowering greenhouse gas emissions—and their toxic co-pollutants—can yield immediate health benefits for communities of color. They go on to assert that:
"...the EPA was right to move ahead on addressing climate change and the president was, in our view, right to promote the proposed rule based on its immediate public health benefits. At the same time, legitimate concerns remain about whether we will leave potential health benefits unrealized if we allow states to over-rely on carbon trading, while turning a blind eye to the fact that the market is not an even playing field, particularly for people of color."
