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Topic | How Black communities become 'sacrifice zones' for industrial air pollution |
Antifar 12/21/21 7:39:54 PM #9: | AngelsNAirwav3s posted... So there is also a big white neighborhood next to this carbide plant? Wtf is this article On average, the level of cancer risk from industrial air pollution in majority-Black census tracts is more than double that of majority-white tracts, according to an analysis by ProPublica, which examined five years of emissions data. That finding builds on decades of evidence demonstrating that pollution is segregated, with residents of so-called fence-line communities neighborhoods that border industrial plants breathing dirtier air than people in more affluent communities farther away from facilities. --- kin to all that throbs ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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