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Study: 1930s maps of racist redlining predict air pollution levels today
In news that is both horrible and unsurprising, a team of researchers from UC Berkeley and UW in Seattle have published a study demonstrating that “redlined” areas of cities marked in federal maps from the 1930s had higher levels of air pollution in 2010. Redlining was the discriminatory practice of withholding loans or other private…
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