Minnesota Power IRP Equity Analysis Final 4.28.22

She currently serves on the Disadvantaged Communities Advisory Group to the California Energy Commission and California Public Utilities Commission, on the board of the Carbon Lighthouse Association, and is a member of the 2021 cohort of New Voices of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. [...] Fossil fuel and biomass use in the power sector can have a range of health and environmental impacts through pollution of the air, water, and soil. [...] This involved taking the intersection of the Minnesota Power territory and census block centroids and allocating the entire block’s population to the service area if the centroid fell within its boundaries. [...] In addition, many environmental health hazards and concerns are not reflected in this PM2.5 modeling, such as the air pollution from diesel used in industrial equipment at the facility and from trucks coming to and from the site, the ground and water pollution from on-site disposal of waste, and non-PM2.5 air pollutant emissions. [...] The population within one mile of Hibbard ranks at the 89th percentile for low-income population and ranks at the 78th percentile on our Demographic Index; the population within one mile of Boswell ranks at the 81st percentile for low-income populations and ranks at the 71st percentile on the Demographic Index; and NTEC ranks in the 74th percentile for low-income population in Wisconsin and 66th p.