{"id":167,"date":"2015-06-11T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esconeighbors.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=167"},"modified":"2015-06-11T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T19:01:00","slug":"newly-released-us-epa-environmental-justice-maps-show-high-impact-in-some-escondido-neighborhoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/escondidoneighbors.org\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Newly released US EPA Environmental Justice Maps show high impact in some Escondido neighborhoods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following closely after the State EJ Screen maps, the US Environmental Protection Agency released their mapping of the most impacted communities in the country from a pollution burden perspective. &nbsp;The LA Times reported today&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-environmental-justice-map-20150609-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Times EJ article<\/a><br \/>\nSouthern California doesn&#8217;t fare well and, sadly, some Escondido areas show up in the highest percentiles for many of the hazards. &nbsp;You can take a look here.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.epa.gov\/ejscreen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal EJ Screen<\/a><br \/>\nOur local areas with the worst indicators seem to line up, again, in areas in District 1. &nbsp;There is funding from the state to address these hardest hit neighborhoods. &nbsp;We have asked the Mayor and Council to pursue funding for projects to improve these impacted neighborhoods. &nbsp;We hope the city will work with community groups to develop a plan that can help alleviate some of these health and pollution burdens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following closely after the State EJ Screen maps, the US Environmental Protection Agency released their mapping of the most impacted communities in the country from a pollution burden perspective. &nbsp;The LA Times reported today&nbsp;Los Angeles Times EJ article Southern California &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/escondidoneighbors.org\/?p=167\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Escondido Neighbors United","author_link":"https:\/\/escondidoneighbors.org\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/escondidoneighbors.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/escondidoneighbors.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/escondidoneighbors.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/escondidoneighbors.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/escondidoneighbors.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/escondidoneighbors.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/escondidoneighbors.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/escondidoneighbors.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/escondidoneighbors.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}