Air quality policy should quantify effects on disparities

Science. 2023 Jul 21;381(6655):272-274. doi: 10.1126/science.adg9931. Epub 2023 Jul 20.

¹ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
² Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
³ School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
⁴ Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, USA.
⁵ WE-ACT for Environmental Justice, Washington, DC, USA.
⁶ Front & Centered, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁷ Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
⁸ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁹ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA.

Abstract

New tools can guide US policies to better target and reduce racial and socioeconomic disparities in air pollution exposure.