The Trade, Health & Environment Impact Project is a collaboration of community and university partners focused on reducing the impacts of international trade, ports and goods movement activities on health and community life. The collaborative is funded by The California Endowment and the Kresge Foundation. THE Impact Project's website has resource materials on the goods movement industry and the health effects of air pollution.
Andrea Hricko is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine. She is also the director of Community Outreach and Education of the Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center which is funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Andrea presents to the public the research findings on air pollution's effects on health published by her colleagues at USC. She is a member of the US EPA Work Group on Goods Movement of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council.
Angelo Logan is the director of East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice in Commerce, California, is a community that has been greatly changed over the years by the presence of intermodal rail-trucking facilities. Angelo is a member of the US EPA Work Group on Goods Movement of the National Environmental Advisory Council. He is an appointee to numerous task forces and committees in California concerning emissions from goods movement facilities (ports, railyards, freeways, warehouses).
Dr. Jennifer Peel is an environmental epidemiologist in the Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences Department at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. One of her research interests is the health effects of ambient air pollution. Ongoing projects include studies of air pollution in relation to several health outcomes, including emergency department visits for respiratory and cardiovascular conditions and adverse birth outcomes such as preterm birth and low birth weight.
Melissa Lin-Perrella is a staff attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council. She has taken an active interest in the permitting of BNSF's IMF in Johnson County.
