People of color are exposed to more air pollution, in part due to the proximity of segregated neighborhoods to industrial areas, but also across all income levels.
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Housing loan policies once limited where people of color could live (a practice known as redlining) and still affects those neighborhoods through the urban heat island effect.
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From coal ash to mine tailings to asphalt shingles, poor communities have often become dump sites for toxic waste created elsewhere.
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