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On the recordJuly 12, 2022
Formerly redlined communities experience as much as double the amount of air pollution as non-redlined communities, and race plays a big role, even within the same communities.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey highlights the disparity in air pollution affecting redlined communities.

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