ArticleNature energy2023
Historical red-lining is associated with fossil fuel power plant siting and present-day inequalities in air pollutant emissions.
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- Racial and Ethnic Inequities to Cumulative Environmental and Occupational Impacts in Michigan.GeoHealth · 2025Article
- Social-Environmental Burden Is Associated with Increased Colorectal Cancer Mortality in Metropolitan Detroit.Cancer research communications · 2025Article
- Historical Redlining and Community-Reported Housing Quality: A Spatial Analysis.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2025Article
- Analysis of proposed carbon capture projects in the US power sector and co-location with environmental justice communities.PloS one · 2025Article
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Abstract
Stationary sources of air pollution are disproportionately located in communities of colour, but the causes for this disparity are unclear. Here we assess whether racialized appraisals of investment risk ('red-lining') undertaken by the US federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s influenced the subsequent siting of fossil fuel power plants. Across 8,871 neighbourhoods in 196 US urban areas, we observed a stepwise correlation between risk grade, number of power plants and cumulative quantity of power plant emissions upwind and within 5 km. Controlling for pre-existing power plants, neighbourhoods deemed 'hazardous' (D grade, 'red-lined') had a higher likelihood of a fossil fuel power plant being sited between 1940 and 1969 (72%), 1970 and 1999 (20%) and 2000 and 2019 (31%), and higher average present-day emissions of nitrous oxides (82%), sulfur dioxide (38%) and fine particulate matter (63%) compared with 'declining' ( C- graded) neighbourhoods. Our results suggest racism in the housing market contributed to inequalities in present-day power plant emissions burdens.
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