A new study that suggests ongoing health risks caused by gas and oil wells in vulnerable communities are at least partly tied to historical structural racism.
that suggests ongoing health risks in vulnerable communities are at least partly tied to historical structural racism.
“These are critical questions,” said David J. X. Gonzalez, an epidemiologist at UC-Berkeley and one of the study’s authors. “If we want to reduce health disparities, if we want environmental justice, these are the kinds of questions that we want to understand.” In Los Angeles, Black and Latino residents often were forced to live in neighborhoods with oil wells because of racially restrictive covenants, said Martha Dina Argüello, executive director of the Los Angeles chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Even more drilling got pushed into Black and Latino neighborhoods when housing developers wanted land in more affluent areas, she said.
Last fall, supervisors in Los Angeles County — home to some of the largest urban oilfields in the U.S. —and ban new wells in unincorporated areas following longstanding complaints from residents about health problems blamed on air pollution from the sites. The Los Angeles City Council voted in January to do the same, and Argüello said advocates are pushing for the state to take similar action in other urban areas.
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