Majority-white Westside neighborhoods, for instance, could also be benefiting from ocean breezes that push pollution into predominantly Black and Latino areas, he said.

The LA Times shares an opinion piece about a study claiming that White and affluent commuters spread pollution in neighborhoods occupied by people of color.

Everyone benefits when there is less air pollution, ... but higher- and lower-income Black people and low-income White people may benefit more from lower PM2.5 levels than higher-income White people.

Counties with severe air pollution, ... in stark contrast to the 37% who are white. ... BLACK ENTERPRISE previously reported that with beauty products disproportionately marketed to Black ...

More Black Americans are concerned about their local exposure to air pollution than other racial or ethnic groups, a new survey found. Gallup’s survey found 53 percent of Black adults are ...

Black and Latino Neighborhoods Face Worse Air Pollution, Study Finds Highways, plants in East Austin fuel health inequality By Lina Fisher, 2:19PM, Fri. Mar. 22, 2024 ...

Pollution is Displacing Black Midwesterners. White Homeowners are Profiting. Black people in the Midwest are 33% more likely to receive lung cancer diagnoses than those living in the country’s ...

And nationally, Black people are 42% more likely than whites to have asthma and have a mortality rate from asthma 2.8 times that of white people, according to data from the American Lung Association.

Many Black communities around Atlanta have voiced concerns about pollution for years but have lacked data to support their claims. Now, a series of new initiatives and studies aim to provide the ...

Mr. Mahoney is the climate and environment reporter at Capital B, a nonprofit news organization reporting for Black communities. The air pollution in Emma Lockridge’s community in Detroit was ...

Air pollution data should be tracked and addressed at the census tract level. Only when we have more localized data will we be able to address disparate impacts on Black mothers, all people of ...

Residents of the mostly Black communities sandwiched between chemical plants along the lower Mississippi River have long said they get most of the pollution but few of the jobs produced by the ...