*[Enwl-eng] Officials shoved polluting plants and people of color into the same neighborhoods

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                        Generations of housing policies forced Black and 
Latinx residents into toxic neighborhoods.









                        Air Pollution Patterns in the U.S. Are Racist, 
Disproportionately Poisoning Communities of Color



                             Sign Now




                        Air might go everywhere, dispersing eventually 
around the globe — but air pollution tends to cluster. And in the U.S., air 
pollution is most dense in Black and brown neighborhoods, because of decades 
of racist housing policies. Federal policies called "redlining" 
intentionally segregated Black, Latinx, and immigrant communities into areas 
considered "less desirable." That ushered in generations of poverty... and 
also deadly environmental racism.



                        Zoning officials used areas around these same 
neighborhoods as prime locations for major polluting industries, including 
coal plants and major highways. The legacy of those decisions lingers today. 
Recent research shows that these historical policies have pushed 
approximately 45 million Americans, primarily people of color, into more 
densely polluted areas than their predominantly whiter and wealthier 
counterparts. This has huge contemporary health implications, including 
causing increased rates of asthma, heart attacks, and strokes — and also 
increased susceptibility to COVID-19. This is true for both adults and also 
small children.



                        Air pollution isn't just unpleasant: it kills. 
Robert D. Bullard, a distinguished professor at Texas Southern University, 
summarizes it perfectly: this research provides additional "solid empirical 
evidence that systemic racism is killing and making people of color sick." 
Not just in the past, but also in the present. It's up to the U.S. 
government to begin to right this wrong that it created. Sign the petition 
to demand that the U.S. government begin an immediate and thorough project 
to clean up the pollution in segregated, formerly redlined neighborhoods!




                 Thank you,

                        Miranda

                        Care2 Petitions Team



                        P.S. Discriminatory decisions from the past are 
affecting children and families in the present — and we must start the work 
to correct this. Sign the petition.

                             Sign Now









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From: Miranda B., Care2 Action Alerts
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 11:26 AM
Subject: Officials shoved polluting plants and people of color into the same 
neighborhoods

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