'Since around 2017, heat and drought driven by climate change has been undoing some of the progress that we should have made and been able to retain.'
harms human health from cradle to grave. The ALA report used air quality data from across the U.S. to track two types of air pollution from 2019-21: particulate matter and ozone. Particulate matter pollution, also known as soot, is a potentially deadly pollutant linked to asthma, heart disease, strokes, and lung cancer. It is emitted by diesel engines, coal plants, wood stoves, and wildfires, among other sources.
In fact, the racial air pollution gap has only widened. In last year's report, people of color were 61% more likely than white people to live in a county with a failing grade for either ozone, short-term particulate matter, or year-round particulate matter and 3.6 times more likely to live in a county with an F for all three. In this year's report, those numbers had jumped to 64% and 3.7 times respectively.
, for example, found that urban neighborhoods that had been"redlined" in the 1930s were more likely to experience higher air pollution levels nearly a century later. All but two of the worst 25 cities for short-term particulate matter pollution were in the West, and three of the top five were in California–Bakersfield, Fresno-Madera-Hanford, Visalia, and San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland.
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