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    Commentary: How can the White House fix environmental injustice if it won’t take race into account?

    by Alvaro Sanchez and Manuel Pastor, Los Angeles Times Mar 23, 2022 3 minutes
    The Phillip 66 Los Angeles refinery in Wilmington, California was built in 1919 and produces produces gasoline, diesel and aviation fuels, which are distributed by pipeline and by truck to customers in California, Nevada, and Arizona.

    In mid-February, when the White House unveiled the beta version of its Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool, it was met by sharp criticism from environmental justice advocates: A mapping tool designed to identify disadvantaged communities neglected to use race as a criterion.

    The screening tool, when finalized, will govern President Biden’s Justice40 initiative, which requires that at least 40% of federal investments in climate change mitigation and clean energy benefit neighborhoods and communities that are, in the administration’s words, “marginalized, underserved and overburdened by pollution.”

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