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December 13, 2005
More Blacks Live With Pollution

From Yahoo! News: Top Stories:

A construction worker enters the Altgeld Gardens housing project on Chicago's South Side, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2005. The project is in a virtually all-black neighborhood where more than half the people live in poverty. The two-story project is nestled among the south Chicago steel mills, which for decades turned the night skies orange with pollution. The area is among the least healthy in the country according to a little-known government research project that assigns risk scores for industrial air pollution in every square kilometer of the United States. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - An Associated Press analysis of a little-known government research project shows that black Americans are 79 percent more likely than whites to live in neighborhoods where industrial pollution is suspected of posing the greatest health danger.


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