Latino Communities at Risk: The Impact of Air Pollution from the Oil and Gas Industry
- Abstract
Many Latino communities face serious health risks caused by air pollution. What’s more, higher poverty levels and relatively lower rates of health insurance increase these health threats from air pollution translating into a bigger health burden on Latino communities. This report for the first time quantifies the elevated health risk that millions of Latinos face due to pollution from oil and gas facilities.
- Resource Type
- Report
- Authors
- Lesley Fleischman Declan Kingland Christopher Maxwell Elena Rios, MD, MSPH
- Date
- September 2016
- Institution
- Clean Air Task Force (CATF); League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC); National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA)
- Health and Human Impacts
- Overview/general Respiratory disease
- Climate and Environmental Impact
- Air pollution
- Emission Sources
- Energy Conventional
- Fossil Fuels
- Coal Natural gas Oil Overview/general
- GHG
- Carbon dioxide
- Solutions
- Climate mitigation/GHG reduction Renewable/clean energy
- Other
- Climate and environmental justice/health equity Vulnerability assessment Vulnerable populations Policy United states