María Belén Power is the state's first ever undersecretary of environmental justice and equity, a new role created by Gov. Maura Healey.
is a community park in Lawrence beside the Spicket River, featuring a playground and the start of a greenway that goes through the city. You'd never know it was once the site of a trash incinerator that left the land contaminated for many years.
She started her new role, created by Gov. Maura Healey, last week. Power says environmental justice is often a misunderstood term. She defines it as"a disproportionate impact on Black and brown people and low income people, people of color." Power was born in Nicaragua and moved to the U.S. for college. She previously worked as assistant director of Green Roots, a community-based organization dedicated to improving the environmentChelsea has some of the worst air pollution in the state, which predisposes its residents — many of whom are immigrants — to higher rates of cardiovascular disease and respiratory illness.
"A lot of times, this sort of example in Lawrence — of a waterfront park, of open space and green space — is really not the experience of immigrants in Massachusetts."
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