Pesticides and environmental injustice in the USA: root causes, current regulatory reinforcement and a path forward

N Donley, RD Bullard, J Economos, I Figueroa, J Lee… - BMC Public Health, 2022 - Springer
Many environmental pollutants are known to have disproportionate effects on Black,
Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) as well as communities of low-income and wealth …

Systemic And Structural Racism: Definitions, Examples, Health Damages, And Approaches To Dismantling: Study examines definitions, examples, health damages …

PA Braveman, E Arkin, D Proctor, T Kauh, N Holm - Health affairs, 2022 - healthaffairs.org
Racism is not always conscious, explicit, or readily visible—often it is systemic and
structural. Systemic and structural racism are forms of racism that are pervasively and deeply …

The interplay of environmental exposures and mental health: setting an agenda

A Reuben, EM Manczak, LY Cabrera… - Environmental …, 2022 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: To date, health-effects research on environmental stressors has rarely focused
on behavioral and mental health outcomes. That lack of research is beginning to change …

Inequities in drinking water quality among domestic well communities and community water systems, California, 2011‒2019

C Pace, C Balazs, K Bangia… - … journal of public …, 2022 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To evaluate universal access to clean drinking water by characterizing
relationships between community sociodemographics and water contaminants in California …

Association between ambient air pollution and birth weight by maternal individual-and neighborhood-level stressors

Z Niu, R Habre, TA Chavez, T Yang… - JAMA network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Fetal growth is precisely programmed and could be interrupted by
environmental exposures during specific times during pregnancy. Insights on potential …

[HTML][HTML] A new mobile monitoring approach to characterize community-scale air pollution patterns and identify local high pollution zones

Y Chen, P Gu, N Schulte, X Zhou, S Mara… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban air pollution is quite complex and exhibits significant spatial variability within
communities. Traditional centralized monitoring captures temporal variability as well as the …

[HTML][HTML] Endocrine disruptors of sex hormone activities

L Varticovski, DA Stavreva, A McGowan… - Molecular and cellular …, 2022 - Elsevier
Sex hormones, such as androgens, estrogens and progestins are naturally occurring
compounds that tightly regulate endocrine systems in a variety of living organisms …

Disparities in air pollutants across racial, ethnic, and poverty groups at US public schools

MJ Cheeseman, B Ford, SC Anenberg, MJ Cooper… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate socioeconomic disparities in air quality at public schools in the contiguous
US using high resolution estimates of fine particulate matter (PM2. 5) and nitrogen dioxide …

Exploring the distributional environmental justice implications of an air quality monitoring network in Los Angeles County

C Mullen, A Flores, S Grineski, T Collins - Environmental Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Non-governmental air quality monitoring networks include low-cost, networked air pollution
sensors hosted at homes and schools that display real-time pollutant concentration …

[HTML][HTML] Adoption of low-carbon fuels reduces race/ethnicity disparities in air pollution exposure in California

Y Li, A Kumar, Y Li, MJ Kleeman - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
An environmental justice (EJ) analysis shows that adoption of low-carbon energy sources in
the year 2050 reduces the race/ethnicity disparity in air pollution exposure in California by …