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One Rural City is Home to Some of California’s Highest ‘Pollution Burdened’ Communities

Yucheng Tang -
Low-income communities in Chico, about 90 miles north of Sacramento, shoulder a “pollution burden” worse more than almost 93 percent of California.
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California Updates Pollution Mapping Tool to Identify Communities Most at Risk

Selen Ozturk -
CalEnviroScreen5.0 combines environmental, health and socioeconomic data sets to show which communities experience the greatest environmental burdens.
Environment

Toxic Smog, Visible from Space, Envelops Pakistan and India

ACoM -
Industrial emissions and crop burning are creating unprecedented levels of toxic smog in Pakistan and India.
Environment

The Planet’s Most Existential Threat Was Left Out at the Ballot Box

Sunita Sohrabji -
The planet faces its most existential crisis, climate change, but voters and candidates seem largely unconcerned.
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Forty Percent of Americans Live in Areas With Unhealthy Air Quality

ACoM -
Some 131.2 million Americans live in regions with high rates of particulate matter, an increase of nearly 12 million from the year prior.
Environment

‘They’re Building a Chemical Factory on My Ancestors’ Graves’

Sunita Sohrabji -
Residents of St. James Parish, Louisiana, are fighting to keep a toxic plastic chemicals factory from being built on the site of ancestral burial grounds.

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