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Great post from RaceWire: Now It’s Official: The Poor and People of Color Get the Dirty Air

  • May 6, 20093:18 pm PDT
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I thought the GOOD Community would like this post by Nina Jacinto over at RaceWire today:

"Last week, researchers at the University of Massachusetts and the
University of Southern California released a study that confirms what
many people are all too familiar with: toxic pollution falls
disproportionately on lower-income neighborhoods and communities of
color. The 28-page report, entitled "Justice in the Air",
is one of the first to examine the disparities between the health risk
from industrial air toxins faced by people of color and the poor and
their proportion of the population."

See the rest of the post here.