Advocacy
Environmental Health Coalition
Environmental Health Coalition campaigns on industrial zoning, truck-route restrictions, toxic-free neighborhoods, and climate-resilience projects in Barrio Logan and National City. Barrio Logan ranks in the top 5 percent of most polluted areas in California. EHC led advocacy for the 2021 community plan with a 65-acre industrial buffer zone and final Coastal Commission approval in 2023.
- Location
- National City, CA
- Founded
- 1980
- Website
- https://www.environmentalhealth.org/communities/logan/
Environmental Health Coalition has organized in Barrio Logan since the 1980s on air quality, truck-route restrictions, and industrial zoning. Its sustained work on the Barrio Logan community plan produced the 2021 council approval and the 2023 California Coastal Commission final approval of the 65-acre buffer zone separating housing from the shipping industry.
Cited in
- Barrio Logan and Chicano Parksan-diego