A DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF CHEMICAL DISASTER VULNERABILITY ZONES

More than 134 million Americans, and their homes, schools, businesses, parks, and places of worship, live in harm’s way of a toxic chemical release from several basic industries, according to this new analysis of 3,433 facilities that use or store extremely hazardous chemicals. Neighbours of facilities in these industries are disproportionately Black (African American) or Latino,1 have higher rates of poverty than for the U.S. as a whole, and have lower housing values, incomes, & education levels than the national average. Characteristics of populations within the “vulnerability zones” of entire industry sectors that manufacture chemicals, treat water or wastewater, produce bleach, generate electric power.

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