Co-Powering Solutions to Truck Pollution in South Stockton

Catherine Garoupa (), Nahui Gonzalez Millan, Bianette Perez, Taylor Williams and Todd Sax
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Catherine Garoupa: Central Valley Air Quality Coalition, 343 East Main Street, Suite 901, Stockton, CA 95202, USA
Nahui Gonzalez Millan: Central Valley Air Quality Coalition, 343 East Main Street, Suite 901, Stockton, CA 95202, USA
Bianette Perez: Little Manila Rising, 2154 South San Joaquin Street, Stockton, CA 95202, USA
Taylor Williams: San Joaquin Community Foundation, 6731 Herndon Pl, Stockton, CA 95219, USA
Todd Sax: California Air Resources Board, 1001 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95814, USA

Social Sciences, 2023, vol. 12, issue 8, 1-16

Abstract: Despite decades of literature and practice with community-engaged research along with advancements in the recognition of environmental injustices, the application of equity-/justice-based and collaborative approaches between government agencies and community-based organizations has been limited. The toxic legacies of environmental racism, redlining, displacement, and segregation combined with the accelerating human-caused climate crisis warrant an increased need for consultation and collaboration between frontline communities and power brokers to markedly improve quality of life and health outcomes in environmental justice neighborhoods. This paper describes the processes and progress to date from a community-led collaboration between local community-based organizations and the Enforcement Division of the California Air Resources Board to assess and address air pollution in South Stockton, particularly from heavy-duty diesel trucks. South Stockton is one of the most polluted neighborhoods in California’s San Joaquin Valley, one of the most disparate and polluted regions in the United States. Some of the most significant components integrated into this project thus far include taking an equity-, justice-, and youth-oriented approach to community development that intentionally emphasizes a historical understanding of root causes of social and environmental injustices and provides pathways to workforce development. Including these elements has been essential in building the trust necessary to transform disparate power relations between the state and environmental justice communities, and to put multiple ways of knowing into conversation with each other to co-learn and co-power solutions to air pollution in South Stockton.

Keywords: environmental justice; community-based participatory action research; air pollution; San Joaquin Valley (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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