Six key issues impacting women are highlighted in a new report, including health outcomes and environmental racism.
An emission comes out of a smoke stack at the Phillips 66 Refinery in Linden, New Jersey, on February 6, 2024.Houston — Black, Latine and Indigenous women are disproportionately suffering from the fossil fuel industry in North America, according to a
“When water and air become polluted, making elders and children at home sick, and safe food and water supplies hard to obtain, it imposes significant stress and strain on women’s daily lives,” the authors wrote.
This combination of pollution and physical health effects, increased unpaid caretaking, and the potential for violence leave women more susceptible to mental health effects from fossil fuel production, the authors write, citing numerous studies fromThese impacts are expected to grow as the fossil fuel industry expands. The International Energy Forum anticipates that liquified natural gas trade, for example, will increase.
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