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A thick haze of smog looms over the Chicago skyline in this 2015 file photo.

Nam Y. Huh

Chicago air pollution

A thick haze of smog looms over the Chicago skyline in this 2015 file photo.

Nam Y. Huh

How will the Johnson administration tackle environmental justice and climate issues?

The transition team includes an environmental justice subcommittee.

A thick haze of smog looms over the Chicago skyline in this 2015 file photo.

Nam Y. Huh

   

We’re days away from Mayor-elect Johnson’s inauguration. We’re familiar with the transition team’s broad plans for public safety, but what about the environment?

Reset hears about priorities and plans for meeting environmental justice and climate goals from a senior advisor and hears reaction from environmental justice leaders.

GUESTS: Amisha Patel, senior advisor, Mayor-Elect Johnson’s transition team

Karen Weigert, director of Loyola University Chicago’s Baumhart Center for Social Enterprise and Responsibility

Gina Ramirez, Midwest outreach manager at Natural Resources Defense Council

Naomi Davis, founder and president of Blacks In Green

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