"If you reduce vehicle emissions across the board for everybody everywhere, everybody benefits," said Josh Apte, highlighting how overall air quality improvements can still leave existing disparities.
"But if there are groups that are disparately exposed, when everybody benefits, that disparity never goes away. Targeting emissions reductions in those places that tend to be overburdened is the name of the game to solve the problem," Apte emphasized.
"Some of the policies that the Air Resources Board is pursuing now are very well placed to close those gaps in disparity," Apte noted, illustrating strategic policy effects.
Two state laws, passed in 2012 and 2017, have prioritized targeting benefits to communities geographically exposed to unequal amounts of pollution, aiming to rectify existing imbalances.
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