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Scientific American People of Color Breathe More Unhealthy Air from Nearly All Polluting Sources A trend of disproportionate exposure to deadly air pollution among Asian, Hispanic and Black people persists in most cases regardless of the emission source, a study finds Print Air pollution disproportionately affects people of color across the vast majority of emission sources, including industry, gas- and diesel-fueled motor vehicles and construction, according to new findings. Credit: Mark Wilson Advertisement Communities of color in the U.S. have long reported health problems from heavy exposure to polluted air. In recent decades a growing body of data have bolstered these reports by showing that Asian, Black and Hispanic people are exposed to relatively higher concentrations of potentially deadly air pollution on average, compared with white people. But some policy makers have questioned whether these trends hold across sources of such pollution which can vary regionally and

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