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The lack of investment in neighborhood infrastructure and amenities have resulted in communities of color living in areas far hotter than those of their white neighbors.
A 2019 study reported emerging evidence that air pollution causes aggressive or impulsive reactions in people. The study was designed to estimate the change in violent and nonviolent criminal behavior risk associated with short-term air pollution in U.S. counties.
The documented history of redlining in the United States is a manifestation of the historical systemic racism that has had wide-ranging impacts on American society, two examples being educational and housing inequality across racial groups.
The effects of climate change manifested in 2020 with a record 30 named Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes; the highest heat in 80-years recorded at 54.4 Celsius; massive wildfires in Australia, the Western United States, and the Arctic; and the second-lowest annual Arctic sea ice coverage.
One might assume that redlining and deed restrictions are a thing of the past, so their effect on the Tower probably waned long ago; however, while racial deed covenants were deemed federally ...
As early as 2002 the Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce puts forth the distinction more in use today: weblining is the pervasive and generally accepted (or at least tolerated) practice of personalizing access to products and services in ways invisible to the user; digital redlining is when such personalized, data-driven schemes perpetuate ...
Minority neighborhoods where residents were long denied home loans have twice as many oil and gas wells as mostly white The post Study: Redlining tied to more oil, gas wells in urban areas ...
It was the first international legal instrument to address climate change and the most comprehensive international attempt to address negative impacts to global environment. [3] The CBDR principle acknowledges that all states have shared obligation to address environmental destruction but denies equal responsibility of all states with regard to ...