“What this is showing is that communities across the United States are not exposed to the same mixture of particulate air pollution,” says John Kodros, the study’s lead author.
Mass concentrations of recognized harmful and cancer-causing metals — such as lead, nickel and chromium — are three times more likely to be inhaled in racially separated communities.
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