"Thousands of drilling operations are within 100 meters of redlined communities, according to a new study".

"Majority Black and Latino communities that received the worst grades under a racially discriminatory federal housing program known as redlining have nearly twice as many oil drilling wells as mostly White communities, a new study says.

The study by scientists at the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University in New York joined a large body of research showing how communities of color are disproportionately exposed to pollution and the resulting poor health outcomes.

It comes on the heels of a report last month that said 45 million Americans are breathing dirtier air because of racial redlining. The March study found that, compared with 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 redlined."

Darryl Fears reports for the Washington Post April 15, 2022. [2]

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"Redlining Means 45 Million Americans Are Breathing Dirtier Air, 50 Years After It Ended" (Washington Post) [3]