Data for this article was collected from city council member interviews, advocacy group interviews, EPA documents (2013 toxic release tables), and the American Lung Association statistics. The...Read more
A major deficit of the map is that it only includes nitrogen dioxide. This is only one of many gases that is considered a pollutant by the EPA, and we cannot say that pollution as a whole has...Read more
American Thoracic Society and New York University study documents the number of deaths and serious illnesses attributed to poor air quality for hundreds of zip codes throughout the United...Read more
...Delhi is cursed with poor geography as far as air pollution is concerned. The capital city lies to the north-east of the Thar Desert, to the north-west of the central plains and to the south-west of the Himalayas. As winds arrive from the coasts, bringing with them pollutants picked up...Read more
In this neighborhood, the majority of residents are people of Color (POC). Apparently, this neighborhood is historically POC and has historically been a marganilized community. The wast...Read more
Lynn Page Snyder's 1994 Environmental History Review article on DonoraRead more