ArticleAmerican journal of public health2016
Wastewater Disposal Wells, Fracking, and Environmental Injustice in Southern Texas.
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- Natural gas development, flaring practices and paediatric asthma hospitalizations in Texas.International journal of epidemiology · 2021Article
- Flaring from Unconventional Oil and Gas Development and Birth Outcomes in the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas.Environmental health perspectives · 2020Article
- Environmental Justice Dimensions of Oil and Gas Flaring in South Texas: Disproportionate Exposure among Hispanic communities.Environmental science & technology · 2020Article
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- Where Does Fracking Wastewater Go? Socioeconomic Predictors of Class II Well Placement in Ohio.Environmental health perspectives · 2019Article
- Utilization of the Maryland Environmental Justice Screening Tool: A Bladensburg, Maryland Case Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo investigate race and poverty in areas where oil and gas wastewater disposal wells, which are used to permanently inject wastewater from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations, are permitted.
methodsWith location data of oil and gas disposal wells permitted between 2007 and 2014 in the Eagle Ford area, a region of intensive fracking in southern Texas, we analyzed the racial composition of residents living less than 5 kilometers from a disposal well and those farther away, adjusting for rurality and poverty, using a Poisson regression.
resultsThe proportion of people of color living less than 5 kilometers from a disposal well was 1.3 times higher than was the proportion of non-Hispanic Whites. Adjusting for rurality, disposal wells were 2.04 times (95% confidence interval = 2.02, 2.06) as common in areas with 80% people of color or more than in majority White areas. Disposal wells are also disproportionately sited in high-poverty areas.
conclusionsWastewater disposal wells in southern Texas are disproportionately permitted in areas with higher proportions of people of color and residents living in poverty, a pattern known as "environmental injustice."
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