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Climate Change And Social Vulnerability In The United States A Focus On Six Impacts, Us Environmental Protection Agency

Federal Documents

Climate change affects all Americans—regardless of socioeconomic status—and many impacts are projected to worsen as temperatures and sea levels continue to rise, snow and rainfall patterns shift, and some extreme weather events become more common. A growing body of literature focuses on the disproportionate and unequal risks that climate change is projected to have on communities that are least able to anticipate, cope with, and recover from adverse impacts. Many studies have discussed climate change impacts on socially vulnerable populations, but few have quantified disproportionate risks to socially vulnerable groups across multiple impacts and levels of global warming.

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Comments Re: Concrete Production, Materials Handling, And Concrete Crushing Operations At Piers 92 And 94, San Francisco, Golden Gate University School Of Law

Environmental Law and Justice Clinic

The Environmental Law and Justice Clinic at Golden Gate University School of Law (the “Clinic”) submits these comments on behalf of the African American Community Health Equity Council, All Positives Possible, Bayview Hill Neighborhood Association, Bayview Hunters Point Mothers and Fathers Committee, Communities for a Better Environment, First Generation Environmental Health & Economic Developments, Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, the National Lawyers Guild - SF Bay Area Chapter Environmental Justice Committee, and the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project.

Comments On South Fresno Road Widening Project, Golden Gate University School Of Law

Environmental Law and Justice Clinic

We are writing this letter on behalf of South Fresno Community Alliance, Katy Taylor, Rosa DePew, and Panfilo Cerrillo to urge you to deny approval of the actions before you today for the Central Avenue Improvements Project (Bid File 3796) (“Project”), including the finding of Categorical Exemptions pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines, the Inter-fund Loan Agreement for $1,880,097, and the award of a construction contract.

San Francisco Bay Restoration Act, United States. Congress. House. Committee On Transportation And Infrastructure

Federal Documents

The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 610) to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish a grant program to support the restoration of San Francisco Bay, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill as amended do pass.

Comments Re: Baaqmd Permitting Rules, Golden Gate University School Of Law

Environmental Law and Justice Clinic

Comments regarding the Bay Area Air Quality Management District permitting rules. The comments are submitted by the Environmental Law and Justice Clinic at Golden Gate University School of Law on behalf of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project and Communities for a Better Environment.

A Human Face To Instream Flow: Indigenous Right To Water For Salmon And Fisheries, Paul Stanton Kibel

Publications

In the United States and throughout the world, there are many indigenous peoples whose culture and identity are closely connected to salmon and fisheries. Such salmon and fisheries are often dependent on maintaining adequate instream flows of water in rivers. Indigenous groups in the United States and in other countries have increasingly relied on indigenous human rights laws as a basis to keep water instream to maintain salmon and fisheries. This includes reliance on sources of international law such as the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the International …