New CalEPA Secretary Yana Garcia on California’s Environmental Goals

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🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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California’s new Secretary for Environmental Protection, Yana Garcia, is no stranger to community-based and indigenous-led environmental justice. As CalEPA’s Deputy Secretary for Environmental Justice, Tribal Affairs and Border Relations, Garcia centered collaborations with Mexican community and environmental justice organizations, informed by her own experiences growing up in Oakland, California, and Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico. The first Latina Secretary of CalEPA, Garcia joins us to share how she plans to steer the agency on climate change, air and water quality and environmental justice. Guests: Yana Garcia, Secretary for Environmental Protection, CalEPA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.6	State lawmakers passed a package of aggressive climate change-related measures that Governor Newsom is expected to sign from requirements to cut greenhouse gases by 85% and get all electricity
1:29.3	from renewable sources by 2045 to buffer zones around oil and gas wells.
1:34.3	California's new EPA Secretary Jana Garcia joins us to talk about how the agency will implement
1:40.3	it and her plans to combat air pollution, drought, extreme heat, while promoting
1:45.3	justice.
1:46.3	We'll meet the state's new environmental regulator after this news. This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim.
2:05.1	California's Environmental Protection Agency rivals the nations and staff and budget,
2:10.6	according to its former secretary, Jared Blumenfeld.
2:13.1	And now the state CPA has a new leader.
2:15.8	Yana Garcia has taken the helm of the agency responsible for regulating air pollution and pesticides, ensuring safe drinking water and managing heat and other environmental dangers. Now add to that a package of aggressive new climate change related measures.
2:31.1	Yana Garcia joins us. Secretary Garcia, welcome to Forum. Hi, Mina. Thanks for having me.
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