Environment Alert: Redlining means 45 million Americans are breathing dirtier air today, researchers find, 50 years after it ended
| Decades of federal housing discrimination continues to disproportionately affect Americans of color, according to an analysis of more than 200 cities published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology Letters. The study found that, compared to White people, Black and Latino Americans live with more smog and fine particulate matter from cars, trucks, buses, coal plants and other nearby industrial sources in areas that were deemed undesirable by federal mortgage officers between the late 1930s and late 1960s. |
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| | | | Environment Alert | March 9, 8:36 a.m. EST | | | | | Decades of federal housing discrimination continues to disproportionately affect Americans of color, according to an analysis of more than 200 cities published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology Letters. The study found that, compared to White people, Black and Latino Americans live with more smog and fine particulate matter from cars, trucks, buses, coal plants and other nearby industrial sources in areas that were deemed undesirable by federal mortgage officers between the late 1930s and late 1960s. | | | | | |
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