{"id":364380,"date":"2017-03-21T02:30:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T06:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grist.org\/?post_type=grist-50-profiles&amp;p=364380"},"modified":"2017-03-21T02:30:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T06:30:02","slug":"nanette-barragan","status":"publish","type":"grist-50-profiles","link":"https:\/\/grist.org\/grist-50\/profile\/nanette-barragan\/","title":{"rendered":"Elected officials don&#8217;t speak out against environmental injustice. Nanette Barrag\u00e1n fights for polluted communities."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"g50-profile__stats-block profile__stats-block--profile-364380 \">U.S. Representative<br \/>\nSan Pedro, California<br \/>\nAge: 40<\/aside>\n<p>Nanette Barrag\u00e1n is used to facing off against polluters. Elected in 2013 to the city council of Hermosa Beach, California, she took on E&amp;B Natural Resources, an oil and gas company looking to drill wells on the beach. Barrag\u00e1n, an attorney before going into politics, learned of the potential project and began campaigning for residents to vote against it. The project was eventually squashed. In November, she won a congressional seat in California\u2019s 44th district.<\/p>\n<p>To Barrag\u00e1n, making sure President Trump\u2019s environmental rollbacks don\u2019t affect communities is a matter of life or death. The district she represents, the same in which she grew up, encompasses heavily polluted parts of Los Angeles County &#8212; areas crisscrossed with freeways and dotted with oil and gas wells. Barragan says she grew up close to a major highway and suffered from allergies. \u201cI now go back and wonder if it was related to living that close,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>[pullquote share=&#8221;true&#8221; hashtag=&#8221;Grist50&#8243; ]\u201cThere\u2019s going to be a real fight on protecting some of the progress we\u2019ve made.\u201d [\/pullquote]<\/p>\n<p>Exide Technologies, a battery manufacturer that has polluted parts of southeast Los Angeles County with arsenic, lead, and other chemicals for years, sits just outside her district\u2019s borders. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/mycd\/\">Barrag\u00e1n\u2019s district<\/a> is also 69 percent Latino and 15 percent black. She has become acutely aware of the environmental injustices of the pollution plaguing the region. \u201cPeople who are suffering are in communities of color,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Now in the nation\u2019s capital, Barrag\u00e1n is chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus\u2019s newly formed environmental task force and a member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, which considers legislation on topics like energy and public lands and is chaired by climate denier Rob Bishop, a Utah Republican. She knows the next four years will be tough but says she\u2019s up for the challenge. \u201cI think it\u2019s going to be, I hate to say it, a lot of defense.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This politician fights for polluted communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57007830,"featured_media":490309,"menu_order":49,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[10],"class_list":["post-364380","grist-50-profiles","type-grist-50-profiles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","grist-50-cities","grist-50-13","grist-50-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Elected officials don&#039;t speak out against environmental injustice. 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