Fellow Story

Climate Change Hits Disadvantaged Hardest

Fellow(s): Rachel Morello-Frosch
Topic(s): Air Quality, Environmental & Public Health, Environmental & Social Justice, Architecture & Urban Planning

Low-income neighborhoods are more often exposed to poor environmental quality when compared to wealthier communities, and scientists are saying this gap will increase as climate change is more widely felt.

Additional Resources

AB 32: Global Solutions Warming Act

SB 535 (text of law)

Meet the Fellows in this Story

Rachel Morello-Frosch

Rachel Morello-Frosch

1995 Fellow
Rachel Morello-Frosch is Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. She has an MPH in epidemiology and biostatistics and a Ph.D. in environmental...