Trump cuts Environmental Justice Office putting Black communities at greater risk of pollution
The office, created in 2022 by President Joe Biden, was the culmination of years-long work by the EPA to address the ...
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Asthma crisis grows 42% worse in polluted Black communities
The United States has made remarkable progress in fighting air pollution since implementing the Clean Air Act in 1970, with emissions of major pollutants ...
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Dementia and Air Pollution: Is There a Link?
Dementia risk has been linked to air pollution exposure — particularly PM2.5 exposure — through a growing body of medical research.
In policy reversal, Trump eliminates help for Black and Latino communities hit harder by pollution
President Trump is reversing his predecessor’s efforts to clean up areas hardest hit by pollution from heavy industry, ports ...
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University of Virginia study reveals air pollution inequities linked to industrial swine facilities are detectable from space
A UVA study uses satellite data to show that air pollution from industrial swine farms in Eastern North Carolina ...
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In policy reversal, Trump eliminates help for Black and Latino communities hit harder by pollution
that Black people at all income levels are more likely to breathe pollution that causes heart and lung problems. Under Biden, regulators wrote public health rules, tighter air pollution standards ...