Goals
The ultimate goal of this program is to build a pathway, rooted in community member engagement, that leads to direct and effective policies for reducing air pollution and exposure in underserved and overly burdened communities.
The ultimate goal of this program is to build a pathway, rooted in community member engagement, that leads to direct and effective policies for reducing air pollution and exposure in underserved and overly burdened communities.
- Fill gaps in existing county air emission inventories through a community-based research project in three neighborhoods where pollution burdens are the greatest
- Document resident concerns about toxic hazards
- Produce open-source, publicly-available data with the long-term objective of being used to improve air quality
- Increase community awareness of air quality and its health impacts in their neighborhoods
- Expand neighborhood participation in air quality monitoring and understanding its importance in guiding local policy and land-use decisions
- Build a program that can be replicated and used by community leaders to assess air quality in underserved communities
- Support Ventura County's Air Pollution Control District in complying with AB617: state legislation requiring community-based strategies to improve air quality in California, particularly in Environmental Justice communities
- Determine candidate locations for further monitoring: using the information gathered by community members, locations will be suggested for follow-up monitoring, prioritization in the Ventura County General Plan Update, and as candidate locations for the placement of permanent stationary air quality monitors