Study Finds Minorities at Greater Risk of Exposure to Environmental Health Hazards
The risk of exposure to environmental health hazards -- such as air pollution and toxic waste -- in California was 6.2 times higher for Hispanics, 5.8 times higher for blacks and two times higher for Asians and Native Americans, when compared with whites, according to a study published in the American Journal of Public Health. For the study, researchers at UC-Berkeley and the California Environmental Protection Agency used an online tool to calculate risk scores for 11 different hazards by neighborhood, race and ethnicity.
- "Study: Non-Whites More Exposed to Environmental Hazards" (Hays, UPI, 9/17).