Water Company Withdraws Desalination Proposal as Battle Over Environmental Justice Heats Up
17th September 2020
‘Environmental justice’?
The proposal had become one of the most fraught issues to come before the California Coastal Commission, which was set to vote Thursday. The decision would have been the first major test of the commission’s new power to review not only harm to the environment when making decisions but also harm to underrepresented communities.
Presumably this means that they’re no longer ‘unrepresented’, with white people taking up their cause, theoretically.
UPDATE: Monterey Bay desalination project promotes economic racism Sacramento Bee.