Climate Vulnerability Index illuminates inequities
Researchers hope this groundbreaking tool will help drive policy changes.
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Researchers hope this groundbreaking tool will help drive policy changes.
A grant awarded this week by the federal agency will expand air-quality monitoring in the Fifth Ward, Galena Park, Pleasantville and Sunnyside neighborhoods. Earlier this year, the EPA awarded $500,000 for air monitoring in four other communities in East Houston.
Grace Tee Lewis is a senior health scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund. She helped develop the Climate Vulnerability Index, an environmental justice tool created by the EDF and Texas
All 10 of the country’s most at-risk counties are in the South, according to the Climate Vulnerability Index.
All 10 of the most at-risk counties in the U.S. are in the South, according to the Climate Vulnerability Index, and half of them are in Louisiana.