Aug 9, 2020
Wealthy communities are breathing cleaner air than lower-income areas, despite considerable nationwide reductions in pollution. According to a peer-viewed study in the journal Science, the most polluted census districts in 1981 remained the most polluted in 2016. Fine particle pollution has dropped an average of approximately 70% since 1981. However,...
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