This research group focuses on environmental injustice in Santa Ana, California.
Stakeholder Meeting - Field Notes
George Miller | October 26, 2023 | Santa Ana, California
Working Document: please add information about unnamed panelists; if not named in this brief, no name was recorded in field notes.
Presentations from:
South Coast Air Quality Management District
Orange County CUPA
City of Santa Ana Planning Department
Department of Toxic Substances Control (Zoom)
Notes 09/22 GREEN Meeting with Margarita:
Ridardo Soto (Principal Planner, Santa Ana Planning Division) - Hoping to have SCAG fund some of the public engagement plan strategies. No notice that this will happen.
Kim: will the updates change what’s allowed with existing facilities?
AB617 meeting
South LA
March 9th 2023
Asking community members about stories in south LA (SLA) and any initiatives they are taking
Updates by Martha Dino Arguello: Talks about the area in SLA. Monica’s cleaners to be converted to wet cleaning. Money from a private donor. Took 20 yrs to implement since Martha’s time at SCAQMD
Ruth Andrade: mentioned how citizens did not know the health causes were caused by envt issues
James’ Notes from AQMD meeting with Arlene Farol Saria and Ricardo Rivera:
Arlene: First step of AB617 is Community identification. We take our workshop on the road.
Applications can be sent by an Individual, city, community org. Fill out a form, self recommendation form.
General AB617 webpage, community presentation that they take out to their communities.
Event: EcoGovLab meeting with Jill Harrison and Jill Harrison’s ‘From the Inside Out’ talk at UCI Law
Date: 3-9-2023
Location: SBSG windowless conference room/UCI Law School
Speaker: Jill Harrison, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder, Jill Lindsey Harrison | Geography | University of Colorado Boulder
Maya is a science organizer with the Orange County Environmental Justice non-profit organization that focuses on low-income communities in the county that are exposed to pollutants more than others.
Santa Ana, Fullerton, and Anaheim are usually the main cities OCEJ kinda focuses on; they have a smaller range bc the staff is small, 2021 staff was 3, 2023 staff was 7 people
Maya chose to work as an Environmentalist because she grew up in a diverse neighborhood in Long Beach where she experienced some sort of injustice.
Event: Coastal Justice Lab, Public Launch
Date: 3-9-2023
Location: UCI Law School
Notes Taken from Kim's Eco Gov Class: Attended by Jose and by Sam from the Vaquer@s
Jose: Santa Ana also suffers from Jet fuel emissions from being in the landing path of the John Wayne Airport. Do they capture average air emissions of PM only? Do they manage all forms of air emission types? How often do they capture emissions? What about unburned fuels from planes and spills and distribution?
Notes Taken from the Stakeholder Meeting Planning Session: Attended by Kim, Mike, Jose, Leonel, Sarahi, Margarita, Me.
KIM: Beginning to think it will come together in a nice way. We are ready to move. The EPA people don't know their role either. To pull them in. It would be helpful to them. Everyone is displacing responsibility. But they want to support. But they need us. They want to work with us.
