Does Cap and Trade Exacerbate Environmental Injustice in California?, with Danae Hernández-Cortés

Publisher:   Resource Radio

Duration:   31:57

Summary from website: In this week’s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Danae Hernández-Cortés, an assistant professor at Arizona State University, about a recent study that investigates how California’s cap-and-trade program affects levels of harmful pollutants in environmental justice communities. Hernández-Cortés discusses how carbon markets can shift concentrations of local air pollutants, environmental justice outcomes of the cap-and-trade program in California, and the need for policies that target issues of environmental justice.

Link: https://www.resources.org/resources-radio/does-cap-and-trade-exacerbate-environmental-injustice-in-california-with-danae-hernandez-cortes/