Environmental justice communities long have raised concerns about unequal enforcement practices and called for multimedia approaches to address them. In response, the Environmental Justice Compliance and Enforcement Working Group, formed by the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA), has undertaken the Los Angeles Initiative to integrate environmental justice concerns into cross-media enforcement of environmental laws.
The initiative involved the selection of two communities to receive thorough community consultations, multimedia compliance inspections, compliance assistance events, and a “report-back” to the community of the results. The final report concludes that the work “confirmed the value of targeted, multi-media enforcement efforts in disadvantaged communities.”
