Greening Santa Ana, California: May 2023 Stakeholder Meeting Report
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On May 18, 2023, EcoGovLab, GREEN-MPNA, and AirUCI hosted an Environmental Justice Stakeholder Meeting in Santa Ana, California. The report includes an executive summary; background information; details on GREEN-MPNA's recent successes and DAC-X campaign; a description of exchanges that happened during the meeting; and a concluding section that lays out priority actions going forward.
Stakeholder meetings in Santa Ana are a way we work together to translate scientific and community knowledge into action.
33 of Santa Ana’s 64 neighborhoods are designated disadvantaged communities (DACs) by CalEnviroScreen, the leading tool for assessing environmental injustice in California (see the maps). GREEN-MPNA, a community-based organization in Santa Ana, is working to change this through its Greening Santa Ana campaign, newly focused on DAC-X: an action-oriented movement to reduce disadvantage through pollution reduction, health equity, economic justice and inclusive governance.
GREEN-MPNA’s May 2023 Environmental Justice Stakeholder Meeting (building on the momentum of a January 2023 Environmental Justice Stakeholder Meeting) focused especially on pollution reduction, with panelists representing the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (CA-DTSC), California Air Resources Board (CARB), South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD), the US Attorney General’s Office for Central California, and the City of Santa Ana.
The meeting was organized in collaboration with the University of California’s EcoGovLab, and AirUCI. Attendees (approximately 100) included residents of Santa Ana (including many GREEN-MPNA members), representatives of diverse community-based organizations, and researchers from the University of California. The meeting was run in both Spanish and English, directed by questions posed by community members.
GREEN-MPNA’s Greening Santa Ana campaign and movement for DAC-X will include a series of stakeholder meetings to identify and work toward environmental justice benchmarks to be achieved by the end of 2023, in three years (2025), five years (2027) and ten years (2032).
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Critical Commentary
On May 18, 2023, EcoGovLab, GREEN-MPNA, and AirUCI hosted an Environmental Justice Stakeholder Meeting in Santa Ana, California. The report includes an executive summary; background information; details on GREEN-MPNA's recent successes and DAC-X campaign; a description of exchanges that happened during the meeting; and a concluding section that lays out priority actions going forward.
Stakeholder meetings in Santa Ana are a way we work together to translate scientific and community knowledge into action.
33 of Santa Ana’s 64 neighborhoods are designated disadvantaged communities (DACs) by CalEnviroScreen, the leading tool for assessing environmental injustice in California (see the maps). GREEN-MPNA, a community-based organization in Santa Ana, is working to change this through its Greening Santa Ana campaign, newly focused on DAC-X: an action-oriented movement to reduce disadvantage through pollution reduction, health equity, economic justice and inclusive governance.
GREEN-MPNA’s May 2023 Environmental Justice Stakeholder Meeting (building on the momentum of a January 2023 Environmental Justice Stakeholder Meeting) focused especially on pollution reduction, with panelists representing the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (CA-DTSC), California Air Resources Board (CARB), South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD), the US Attorney General’s Office for Central California, and the City of Santa Ana.
The meeting was organized in collaboration with the University of California’s EcoGovLab, and AirUCI. Attendees (approximately 100) included residents of Santa Ana (including many GREEN-MPNA members), representatives of diverse community-based organizations, and researchers from the University of California. The meeting was run in both Spanish and English, directed by questions posed by community members.
GREEN-MPNA’s Greening Santa Ana campaign and movement for DAC-X will include a series of stakeholder meetings to identify and work toward environmental justice benchmarks to be achieved by the end of 2023, in three years (2025), five years (2027) and ten years (2032).