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The study used data to show that socially vulnerable communities have significantly higher natural gas pipeline densities and are therefore exposed to more pollution and health and safety issues.
A new nation-wide analysis shows that counties with higher social vulnerability are home to a denser web of natural gas pipelines.
The base map from the CDC shows the degree of social vulnerability by county. The dark blue areas are the most socially vulnerable and the light green is the least. The overlay of the red line represents the approximate route of the Mountain Valley Pipeline Southgate project. It would traverse two socially vulnerable counties — Rockingham and Alamance — as well as part of Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation tribal lands, north of Burlington. Four academic researchers, including Ryan Emanuel and Louie Rivers III of NC State University, have found that of the 2,261 U.S. counties travers...
Counties with more socially vulnerable populations have a higher density of natural gas pipelines overall, according to a new analysis. The findings suggest counties that are more socially vulnerable are also at greater risk of facing water and air pollution, public health and safety issues, and other negative impacts associated with the pipelines. “We know that the network, as it stands today, is already distributed in such a way that any negative impacts fall disproportionately on vulnerable communities,” says Ryan Emanuel, a professor of forestry and environmental resources at North Ca...
New research published in Geohealth from a team of North Carolina State University researchers reports that counties with more socially vulnerable populati | Earth And The Environment