Toxic Tides and Environmental Injustice: Social Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise and Flooding of Hazardous Sites in Coastal California https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c07481 summary:<p>"Climate Central, in partnership with UC Berkeley and UCLA, is proud to announce the publication of a new peer-reviewed study analyzing the risks sea level rise and coastal flooding pose to hazardous facilities and the communities near them in California.<p>Our research found that over 120 hazardous facilities, including oil refineries, landfills, and sewage treatment plants, will be at risk of coastal flooding by 2050, and over 400 could be at risk by the end of the century if carbon pollution is allowed to grow unchecked. When hazardous facilities flood they can release dangerous substances, exposing nearby residents to toxic floodwaters.<p>Socially marginalized populations, including those with higher proportions of residents living in poverty, residents of color, renters, linguistically isolated households, elderly residents, and single-parent households had a higher likelihood of living near an at-risk hazardous facility. Disadvantaged communities (as defined by CalEnviroScreen 4.0) are over 5 times more likely to live within 1 kilometer of at least one hazardous facility at risk of flooding in 2050."