I understand the environmental hazards that lack of consideration of environmental justice issues can have on the health, and the long-term viability, outcome, wellness, education, and development of children who have to breathe the pollution.
Ruiz shares personal experience to highlight the impact of environmental injustice on children.
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I was a premed [student] at UCLA. … If somebody turned this in, as an undergrad, to their professor at UCLA, they would have received an ‘F,’ sir, an ‘F’ — for the misinterpretation, the falsehoods, the denials, and also citing references…
No family should have to choose between a day’s wages and a doctor’s visit or go without care because of their zip code or income.
For residents of Calexico, this is a direct environmental threat and public health crisis.
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