Air pollution disproportionally affects people of color, lower-income residents in DC

The rates of death and health burdens associated with air pollution are borne unequally and inequitably by people of color and those with lower household income and educational attainment in Washington, D.C., according to a new study. The study found that while deaths and health burdens associated with PM2.5 halved between 2000 and 2018 in the D.C. area, disparities and geographical segregations in health effects persist.

from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/11/211108130240.htm