A Suggested Strategy to Increase Employee Use of Protective Clothing

Burns, D. J.; Nelson, CN

doi:10.1520/stp19220s

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“…The neighborhood known as Burns Brentwood has a racial covenant that says "Only persons of the Caucasian race shall own, use or occupy any dwelling or residence•••" and specifically carves out an exception for "persons of another race who are employed as domestic servants". 84 Additionally, cities had already built up around the HOLC maps and the unequal placement of polluting infrastructure has left these areas continuously disadvantaged, as has been observed directly in Houston, Texas, and elsewhere in the US. 1,2 Even though all the HOLC districts are now deep in the center of Denver, with the growth of suburbs and exurbs all around and the relatively equal potential for polluting infrastructure to be located anywhere, there are still measurable air quality differences between them and the rest of the city, as shown in Figure 4.…”

Section: Air Pollution Discrepancies In Modern Populationmentioning

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Air Pollution Inequality in the Denver Metroplex and its Relationship to Historical Redlining

Bradley,

Croes,

Harkins

et al. 2024

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Prior studies have shown that people of color (POC) in the United States are exposed to higher levels of pollution than non-Hispanic White people. We show that the city of Denver, Colorado, displays similar race-and ethnicity-based air pollution disparities by using a combination of high-resolution satellite data, air pollution modeling, historical demographic information, and areal apportionment techniques. TROPOMI NO 2 columns and modeled PM 2.5 concentrations from 2019 are higher in communities subject to redlining. We calculated and compared Spearman coefficients for pollutants and race at the census tract level for every city that underwent redlining to contextualize the disparities in Denver. We find that the location of polluting infrastructure leads to higher populations of POC living near point sources, including 40% higher Hispanic and Latino populations. This influences pollution distribution, with annual average PM 2.5 surface concentrations of 6.5 μg m −3 in census tracts with 0−5% Hispanic and Latino populations and 7.5 μg m −3 in census tracts with 60−65% Hispanic and Latino populations. Traffic analysis and emission inventory data show that POC are more likely to live near busy highways. Unequal spatial distribution of pollution sources and POC have allowed for pollution disparities to persist despite attempts by the city to rectify them. Finally, we identify the core causes of the pollution disparities to provide direction for remediation.

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Section: Air Pollution Discrepancies In Modern Populationmentioning

confidence: 99%