Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n“The communities that are on the fenceline are getting pollution and they also are getting poverty,” said Robert Bullard, one of the study’s authors. “And also, if you look at the infrastructures within those neighborhoods that have these facilities, they are of poor quality.”<\/p>\n
The report found that 9 in 10 of the facilities are located in counties with “higher demographic vulnerability” \u2013 meaning they had more people of color, more low-income residents, or both, compared to the state and national averages.<\/p>\n
Over half of the new facilities were slated to be built in communities that have a higher proportion of people of color than the national average. Meanwhile, 30% of the facilities were slated to be built in areas with a poverty rate higher than the national average.<\/p>\n
“Segregation and racial redlining actually segregated pollution, and it segregated people,” Bullard said.<\/p>\n
The analysis also found that the proposed facilities were being built in areas that are already struggling with air pollution.<\/p>\n
About 1 in 5 of the proposed facilities are located within the top 10% of areas nationwide with the highest amount of particulate matter pollution, and 46% of the new facilities are slated to be built within the top 10% of communities across the country with the highest amount of air toxins.<\/p>\n
The facilities were concentrated in 9% of Texas counties, with nearly half of them located in Harris County or Jefferson County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David J. Phillip\/AP This aerial photo shows the TPC petrochemical plant near downtown Houston, background, on Tuesday, Aug.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6782,2327,405,56,58,57,66,456,4687,30359],"class_list":{"0":"post-55386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-energy-environment","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-harris-county","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-houston-headlines","13":"tag-houston-news","14":"tag-local","15":"tag-petrochemicals","16":"tag-texas-southern-university","17":"tag-tsu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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