For people who started screeching when I named environmental racism+COVID:

Black + Brown communities have long been treated as dump yards. Trucking + waste sites spike respiratory & other disease.

The Bronx already had some of the highest asthma rates in the US. Then COVID hit. https://twitter.com/mercedestvnews/status/1247933872098160643">https://twitter.com/mercedest...
East Elmhurst is a historically Black community in the shadow of LGA’s fumes.

This is why environmental justice is a core principle of the Green New Deal.

We must acknowledge the impact of racial disparity in power + policy if we are going to fix this. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/04/new-york-south-bronx-minorities-pollution-inequity">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...
'Asthma alley': why minorities bear burden of pollution inequity caused by white people

Mott Haven in the South Bronx is a classic example where black and Hispanic residents experience a particularly insidious ‘environmental inequality’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/04/new-york-south-bronx-minorities-pollution-inequity
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