q man: iyou're wking on ean air issu, you imdiately starto centein on san bernardinothe most pouted par of t united ates. man 2: you can see it and you can smell itnd y can sometimes taste it. man 1: t freightnd logistics indust is the primarcontribur. woman:hey tolde that mson had respatory ises. e of theoctors told meno it haso do wit you kno the envinment. whato we wan man: let's sta to exple what'seally ppening inur city. the narrive vers the tru. doesn'tatter homuch the economicenefits e no one'around tspend it woman: sce it's stly peoe of col in thescommunits thatre beingffected it, ey turnea blind e to it. n: how f are we nna let is go? whave to t a stop to this some pot.

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to be,ike, known the kidith asth or, you ow, the d who cat eathe oryou knowthe kid you n't wa on your sketballeam. 1, 2, 3.ike this ah, ahah, ah.. ving in e inlandmpire, not a t ofeoplare educed on what actuallthe coition ofhe envirment. it been acally visle in termof, li, how bathe ai ality acally is. you casee it a you canmell itnd you c sometim ste it. man: iyou're wking on ean air sues, yoimmediaty

stt to cter in o n bernarno. n bernardinos just et of los aeles. 's one othe mostolluted, if n the most polled part of e unitedtates. you try figure out at's causing that a polluti. you reize the eight an lostics indust is the primarcontritor. man 2:ir in sabernardi inome wayss governed bthe r qualitupwind tt is what iflowing them fr los anges. however, ty also pduce their owpollutioas well. itas to doith landse across l angelesnd southern california. many of those places, because of the cost of land, have been developed in san bernardino and riverside counties. martinez: you have a lot of local elected leaders who are allowing this to happen. it's probably some of the most explosive growth in warehousing in the country.

avol: weet almos40% of the cao traffithat com to us from as, china,apan kore and thecomes to los anges and lo beach. and th they arput on t backof trus or rl and ipped out acro the reon. martez: we s e-commee just booduring t pandemi saw freht vumes com

thugh the rt at hier levels tn we've er seen. 've seeniesel trks and other trks on pele's roa. and , the has contin to roll the hit haest by t paemic arehe folksho are hit hardt by thipollutio theye literay building ts stf in peoe's backrd ol: the fects air llution e actual much mo dramic and wespread an most pple undetand. you ow, withegard to whether air pollion is assoated witasthma, th canc, with oer sts of health madies, the inrmation pretty ear th air poltion is known cainogen.

man: my n leonar, before turned e, he end up getting ck and iwas a co. en one nht he just uldn't breathe. so, th we took himo the urgent ce in lomlinda and en they ded up ging him, lik steroidthrough, li, a oral singe to nd of help hisungs expd and to helpim breat. 's hadhat doneince tn, li, abou3 or 4 tes anhe's 3 n. wh they to me thaty son d respirory issu i startecrying bause i g ared. i ought i d done sothing wron and themy husbd told m "no, yoknow we'vbeen takg care ohim right.ou know,t's not thing weid." i asked them, u know "wt do y think csed it?" one the docrs told o, it hato do wi you ow, the vironmen" sojust thekind of nfirming that f me was shock. thiss somethg that ian't shield h from beuse i cat

put m in a bble. trai could ually runor abt, younow, 5 mines sotimes ifhey're ft, but this oneas beegoing on r about o minute 3 minut no and i d't see istopping anime soonit mightit there and le like e one bend it, you knowand thenhere might benother o coming after , because i ink i do hear anher one ming aft it. yeah ol: weave a surpsing mber of hools anparks alongse busy rdways an ra lines, d our rent research in the last few decades has shown us children who live closer to busy roadways, they actually had poorer lung functi and smaer lungs by vtue of breathi their. it canffect thr lifelo alth andhe duratn of theirives. baera: the was tim where weid want relocat ouof san bernaino to somewhere else because we wanted a better life for our child.

but at the end of the day, i decided this is where i had my child, this is where i met my husband this is where i grew up. whato we wan pele: cleaair! barrera:hat do wwant? ople: go jobs! barrera:hat doe want pele: cleaair! barrer what we want ople: od jobs! barrer i was nev awa that sabernardi had sucbad air ality til probly, like wh i had my son 3 years ago. i starteto educate mysf on what ihappeninand then once iooked, i coun't lookway, sin it's mostly people ofolor in ese counities at are bng affectedy it, which why you ow, i feel like pele don't rely care little b cause ift was a fferent demogrhic, i belie that it wod have bn changea long ti ago. ehicle hn honkin n: aman hagot to g hey, h, ho, amazon h got to ... wee showinsolidari to all the rehouse rkers and althe logiics works

acss the rion. azon hasot to go. % of the peoe here he family mbers or ow someby o works the warehse or gistics dustry, it iving a uck, workg in a wehouse or wking near the raroad. our ngs are t for sa. people: r lungs e not for le. ma there's lot of ople here tt have fily membs withsthma. there's ople here o have familyembers w have passed away frocancer. d now the's a gring conscisness abt the ise anpeople a startinto fight backin one fell swoo a lot ofhese corrations coulmitigatehe issuef llution d they cld creat a high-rd job seor. this is at we' puttinghis nner up day for.asical mbolize,ike, theegion and oufight. [vehicle h honking [peoe speaki indistitly]

ol: diesel provis a lot wer to me big, hvy truck d big, heavy vehicle in bning thadiesel fl, it creat very hi concentrions of ry small partics, so sml that thecan evadmany of the densmechanis we have our bods. oncet crossethe air-ood barrr in theungs andets to the cculatoryystem, it potenally hasffects o anorgan tohere blo goes, whh is eve organ in theody. garc: one thg about ople

the iand empi is that like, thmaterialondition re will ke an ornizer or activi out of ju about abody. i grewp literay right the street from thairport d i can se like, can seehe planesaking off d landin om my rents'ouse my childod home. and then we also have our newly formed eastgate air cargo logistics hub, which is based out of the san bernardino international airport. its justoods comi and goi. and thmain mov of thes gos is aman.

martinez: we have a case against the federal aviation administration. that's an agency that approves aiort projts. so, we filed suit challenging their environmental analysis that wasone for is amazo airport prect. onday, mcolleaguwho's an attory i workith find th one ema where t faa was counicatindirectlyith amaz about homa airplan were goa come in d out ofhis projt. , we kd of hadhis "aha ment. "a." they' known th amazon s engage ve early oin this oject, yet ey were ding it. anwe filed thalawsuit the unitedtates cot of appls.

were askinghe courto stop e projecuntil they do laul environntal revw. there'an immen power imlance beuse you ve coany likemazon wi infini wealth. u can't y that tse enties can afforit. ey may n want toay to cleaup the polluti and make isafer toreathe buthat doe't meathey can do it d they suldn't dit. is efforis tru kind of what peoe callavid vers liath. cmunity gups, they'rjust, th're just re nime. they ow their counity beer. ey're counicatg withheir nehbors abt the has. the ssion fosan berndino antheir counity, y know, az doesn have th. th will ner have tt.

rcia: this issuen this gion in e inlandmpire is so tersectial becau it s to do th your physic health,t has too wi structural ineqty it haso do wh povertandracismit definitely begs for attentn becausthe probm itself inot goinaway. n: for tay's meeng ere's abt 5 topi that we're gna cover armostly rinders aut thingsbout regding thgarden. sand is sayi that shs wiing to. this garn represts, rely the protion ofealth, but t just psicall but agai mentall i'm jorgheredia. i am gardener he at the gard of heal. it'smportantor us toind

ese plac where wcan-- where caneet eachther and connect wi each otr. justearing oer peopls stories d hearintheir stggles wi asthma,earing theistrugglewith canr, wi obesitys well, th high bod presse, becausthat's a connect. yoknow, wh you d't have access thealthy foodall of thatlays in to the qlity of hlth thate all ha as counity meers and a communy as a wle. th garden , for mea form of resisnce. it's a w that we can rlly, ain, jusstand upor ouelves, snd up foour heth, and y to do at we n to impve our quality life. yeah, the nd's picng up a loof the dt. woman: iave my ownnterest ings thai like tdo, too. one them noplaying in t dirt tomuch. [laughs] but i like toome out d help himater fro me to time. i enjoyhe produ th he brin home.

i was diagnosed with cancer in 2016. we didn't ow, likewhere i was gonnbe, how --if i w gonna prove cause was stag3. oman speing instctly] redia: o oman speing indiinctly] thom: maybe at he coects th gardeng becau he's ab torovide tha it's somethg thate can doecause i don't ink he kw exactl what tdo. it not like there's whole foods here, so, you're not gettg great produc redia: ias worki at a wareuse wheny wife was diaosed. you're working 10 hours at a warehouse. you're discouraged from interacting with other people. and it's a very lonely living. these warehouses are massive. i was moving throughout the whole warehouse anit was ety. it's like, i would--i wouldn't

see anybody down the aisles. you kn, that was kind ofhe-- at was kind like, again, ias like, i s workinthere. i s, like,rying.ike, m walkinthrough ese aies, like, crying because i don'know what theuture los like. i'very unctain whathe futureooks le. how far arwe gonna let is go? we have to put a stop to this at some point. man: there's two different types of oleander. th one, the's a buel. ey grow to, likea tr. rcia: ohye. man: he, let mget thisdge. i nt to ll some is dirt er here. garc: i grewut of asma ound 15. i nd of hithe grou running as a teeger once kind of like, unrstood tt i got myungs. ma yeah, s anyway, garciai ha a hard time acceing thaty dad is 's goinghrough t same thing th i expernced.

they thoht that ey were nna probly grow at way. his doct actualltold him that, li, the enronment that we' in is aually tivelyontributg to the deine in h abilitto breathe. man: well, i moved here in 1970. 1970, s bernardo was stl regulacommunit i'veeen and w we're re in '21,nd we go trillis of trus takingver oustreets, tearg up ouroads. lile by lile, bere you kn if yo eyes arclosed, e next tng u know, ow, lookt that big wareuse. whyre they buildingight her-" not en twmiles aw, they he a monstewarehous and at's whe people ve. they ain gonnao any hier. that'sood. [lghter] ill on o mind weould moveyou knowand it mht help m it jt, you kw, you jushave to maka choiceyou know ift gets wse, we mht you kn, we mig

sell ou anmove somhere elsand trit out. andresarcia: is a big ve becauswe've be here foso long a all of r familys he and the's much ros here. martez: we bieve thenly y we're nna get t of thi r qualitcrisis iif we shifto zero issions, partarly in e freigh dustryas soon as posble. e south ast air ality magement dtrict ishe agency tt's respsible fo making se we brehe cleanir in the rion. and , for yes,e ha been pushinthat agey to ado wh's callean indirt source ruler ruleo requir rehouseso implemt clean technogies to ean up their opations. n: i'm ao reminded that i reprent the lmington mmunity.ou have lot of theswarehous in the wilmington community, disadvantaged, iacted

mmunity. man 2: a all of us trust not just [instinct]. [iistinct atter] man: hse membe are you ady to ttify? man 2: im ready. as aelected offici hear y. th is a peline. you ke it happ here th thibold mov i ma the reshappen in my ci. toy, i'm aompani by ns of enronmenl juste vocates,rganizer escially, o've bee puing in t ground rk in sport of indirec sources le. so, bacally, that isny kind of listic delopment wahousinthat is er 10000 squa feet wod be reonsie for thr carbon footprt and just tir dieselmissionseverythi to a from thwarehoes aspposed tprior, where ere has en none. buthe reity is tt witht this re being plemted, nothing going tchange. the gistics dust will ntinue trule theegion d nothinwill eveget better en it cos to ourealth. it dsn't matr how mu t onomic befits ar ifo ons aroundo spend . thindire sourcesule,

ifhat pass today itould be thfirst ty of legiation, picy, thais actuly enforable. today, ty're votg on tha filly. woman:hose tck are sll gonna on our eeways d they'rstilgonna be spewg [indisnct] becse noing in trule getrid of diel trucks th'll be rlaced he by oth... barrer i don'think she derstandwhat t indirec urce rulreads beuse she- oh, gosh. rutherfo: that's why i'lbe ting agast it and apeciate m.. [indistinct chter] reoso: wjust havto conne e dots and let's start to d intthe emplment pracces. let start t ta abouthe wes. les start to talabout th temporary emoynt. let's starto explo what's real happeni in our ty and the naative versus t truth justhe attempts toet lostics toe responble for their otprinand whathey do tour commuties, 6+ears. ma with th, would e clerk plse call e roll. woman: [distinct woman aye. woman 3: yh! woma1: [instinct]. man: no. peopleboo!

won: oh,anessaelgado said y. heering d applau] baera: s the boa actuall justassed thindirect source re. that st means th, you kn, all thwork at we'veone soar was hrd d was prected and now,ou know,e ca gon to theext stepwhich is ying to ma sure th it's regulatein a wayhat's sa for evebody. this is where, you know, built life, ptty much d i feelike thiss why i fighso hard r my community, beuse th is my he. herea: so, iwe all a able to comtogethernd

to reize e impacthat we c all do byoming tother i ink we c really ke a dierence ohow thistory contues to uold. avol: gulatorsre slowl stepng up d saying the counity ismportant e econom industr manucturing,hat is iortant us, but so is the health and vitality of our community. healthfor too ny years was not en at thtable inhese discussions and noit is. [machi hissing dres gara: it's diicult to envisi an envinment foa familyn san beardino.

's obvio that, le, their is getting worse and i want to have children of my own. it encourages mend it motivates me to find every single altnative soluti so thatlike evybody can live a comfortable fe. n: "eah focus"s made possiblen part b a granfrom annray foundaon, a maaret a. cargl philanropy and the ange couy mmunity fountion woma hasa is proud

snsor of "eah focus.

watch your steps, yeah? voice-over: most of the people that work here, they used to work at mines before. so when the mine decides to shut down, they have nothing to do but to go down there and dig for themselves. [coal crunching underfoot] man 2: we find that coal is our national resources. it's the only thing that can generate electricity at this point in time. woman: the owner of the mines