Gennaro details PM2.5 and NOx health burdens in EJ communities
Gennaro says motor vehicles contribute about 11% of local fine particulate matter and 28% of nitrogen oxide emissions. He links those emissions to premature deaths and emergency visits and says communities of color face disproportionately high diesel pollution.
Every year, motor vehicles contribute approximately 11% of the local fine particulate matter.
By that, we mean PM2.5.
People who know air pollution know it, PM2.5, PM10, all that.
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And 28% of the local nitrogen oxide emissions.
These emissions are harmful to human health, leading to hundreds of premature deaths and emergency department visits for respiratory and cardiovascular disease every year.
What's more...
What's more, communities of color are subjected to as much as 15% more fine particulate matter pollution from diesel trucks in a neighborhood with the greatest levels of pollution attributable emergency department visits are all EJ neighborhoods.