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Supervisor Chen highlights environmental justice struggles in District 11 at Climate Action Day
Summary
San Francisco Supervisor Cheyenne Chen used Community Climate Action Day to call attention to pollution, contaminated land and high vulnerability in District 11 neighborhoods and urged local climate action and immigrant protections.
Supervisor Cheyenne Chen told volunteers at McLaren Park that climate action and environmental justice are central concerns for District 11, which she said includes neighborhoods facing high pollution and socioeconomic burdens.
"Climate action, it's care to our community. Climate, it is an environmental climate action, It's environmental justice," Chen said. She listed neighborhoods in and near the park'including Excelsior, Outer Mission, Visitacion Valley and Bayview Hunters Point'and described multiple local vulnerabilities.
Chen told attendees that District 11 residents "are some of the…
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