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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice


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In his historic March 1968 speech at Washington’s National Cathedral, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. observed that the arc of the moral universe is long but bends towards justice. America has an opportunity to accelerate this expectation by bending toward environmental justice.
How can environmental justice best be advanced in the current political moment that is part of a greater historical transition to a non-white population majority by the mid-2040s?
First, let’s define the three components of environmental justice, or EJ:
Meaningful participation of all people in the development, implementation and enforcement of public health and environmental laws, regulations and policies; ....

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People of Color Breathe More Unhealthy Air from Nearly All Polluting Sources


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People of Color Breathe More Unhealthy Air from Nearly All Polluting Sources
A trend of disproportionate exposure to deadly air pollution among Asian, Hispanic and Black people persists in most cases regardless of the emission source, a study finds
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Air pollution disproportionately affects people of color across the vast majority of emission sources, including industry, gas- and diesel-fueled motor vehicles and construction, according to new findings. Credit: Mark Wilson
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Communities of color in the U.S. have long reported health problems from heavy exposure to polluted air. In recent decades a growing body of data have bolstered these reports by showing that Asian, Black and Hispanic people are exposed to relatively higher concentrations of potentially deadly air pollution on average, compared with white people. But some policy makers have questioned whether these trends hold across sources of such pollution which can ....

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