SACRAMENTO – The California Air Resources Board today announced the appointment of ten new members to the AB 32 Environmental Justice Advisory Committee (EJAC). This brings the total number of members to 21. On May 20, the Board delegated to its Executive Officer the authority to select and appoint additional committee members from underrepresented areas, including from the Inland Empire, the Bay Area, Sacramento, San Diego, California Native American Tribes, and Labor.
The newly appointed representatives include:
David Campbell, United Steelworkers
Simeon Gant, Green Technical Education and Employment
Angel Garcia, Californians for Pesticide Reform
Georgette Gomez, Toyon Strategies
John Kevin Jefferson III, Urban Releaf
SAN DIEGO
Participating in an air quality study was not something Rudy Lopez would have done had it not been for his son Bruno.
Bruno was diagnosed with asthma before his second birthday in 2014. It’s a respiratory condition Lopez had seen before in his sister, who died from an asthma attack at 35.
“I don’t think an air study would have peaked my curiosity normally,” Lopez said. But the San Ysidro resident was curious about the role that living near a train station and one of the busiest border crossings played in his son’s condition. He came across the study in an email calling for participants.