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UC Berkeley News: Study Shows More Air Pollution In Areas Of Historical Redlining - UC Berkeley Public Health
Racism from the 1930s is still influencing environmental inequality today.
March 9, 2022
Historic patterns of housing discrimination dating from the 1930s still drive air pollution disparities in hundreds of American cities today, according to a major new study from a team of researchers at UC Berkeley and the University of Washington.
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Despite dramatic improvements in air quality over the past 50 years, people of color at every income level in the United States are exposed to higher-than-average levels of air pollution. While this disparity has been widely studied, the linkages between today’s air pollution disparities and historic patterns of racially segregated planning are still being uncovered.
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