AT-A-GLANCE
Improving air quality for historically disadvantaged communities.
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Participating Churches
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Program Partners
The Need
Communities of color have been systematically disadvantaged and burdened with environmental degradation and pollution. The impact of highways, industry, poor zoning, and planning have contributed to continuing the cycle of systemic racism – creating unhealthy community ecosystems for people of color in the Mid-Atlantic region (Delaware, Maryland, Washington DC, and Virginia). People of color are more likely to experience greater exposures to air pollution, water pollution, poor housing structure, and lack of adequate infrastructure, which are all issues that lead to health disparities resulting in long-term implications on quality of life.
The Impact
50 African American Churches within the Second Episcopal District were selected to build a community-based air quality monitoring network in communities of color, in order to reduce air pollution and associated health inequities in overburdened communities across the region.
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