Polluted U.S. Neighborhoods Haven't Improved in 40 Years

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By Jordan DavidsonJul 31, 2020, 12:23 pm149 pts
If you lived in a community suffering from bad air quality in 1981, chances are your neighborhood hasn't improved much. That's the takeaway from a new study that found despite years of progress to improve air pollution, wealthy, white Americans are breathing much cleaner air than low-income communities of…

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