APPENDIX A. California State Prisons as seen on CalEnviroScreen. This map divides the CalEnviroScreen into quintiles with the darker red areas showing a higher score meaning more burdened by climate change, pollution, poverty and other indicators. 165 These examples of tracts containing state prisons are surrounded by at-risk communities facing high pollution burdens. Thus CalEnviroScreen is not a sufficient indicator for climate risk in California state prisons and we must look to other methods. Environmental Justice communities are those “disproportionately burdened by multiple sources of pollution and social vulnerabilities.” 166
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