A new study connects present-day emissions burdens with historic discrimination in the U.S. housing market more than 80 years ago.
measures the influence of redlining, a discriminatory housing practice, on fossil fuel power plant siting across the U.S. since 1940.Officials color-coded every metropolitan area to reflect
Redlined neighborhoods had a 20-72% higher likelihood of a fossil fuel power plant being sited nearby compared to "C" graded neighborhoods, the second worst grade given by the maps. The 20-72% range depends on the time period, and the 38-82% range depends on the air pollutant, researchers say."What's clear from this study is that the ways in which neighborhoods were valued, and specifically racist sentiment about the value of homes based on who lived in them, did come into play on a structural level," Lara Cushing, assistant professor of environmental health sciences at UCLA and lead author of the study, tells Axios.
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