Title

Video: 2023 MER Webinar

Asset Type

en Video See all items with this value

Date

2023-09-19

TEDC Main Organization Category

en Environmental Justice Movement Fellowship See all items with this value

Creator

Tishman Environment and Design Center

Nicky Sheats

Summary

Across the United States, fossil fuel infrastructure emits toxic air pollution and planet-warming greenhouse gases that drive climate change. Low-income communities and communities of color bear the brunt of both, living on the front lines of impacts from climate change as well as suffering the harms of localized co-pollutants, like particular matter and nitrous oxides, emitted by nearby facilities. A just and equitable climate mitigation policy for the power sector must make the elimination of the sector’s outsized impact on these environmental justice (EJ) communities an explicit goal.

A new joint report by Dr. Nicky Sheats of the John S. Watson Institute for Urban Policy and Research (Kean University) and members of the Tishman Environment and Design Center, lays out a framework for a policy to require mandatory emissions reductions (MER) of power sector pollution in EJ communities, and applies it to three state case studies: New Jersey, Minnesota, and Delaware.

Running time

01:29:37

Place

New York See all items with this value

Unique Identifier

TEDC_RP_MER_000566

Tags

Environmental Justice

Ana Baptista

Research & Practice

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