Air Pollution Crisis in Willowbrook, Ill., Exposes Toxic Racial Divide - theintercept.com

After a crucial division of the Environmental Protection Agency reassessed the dangers of two key pollutants — ethylene oxide and chloroprene — the risk of cancer from air pollution shot up in many communities around the country. In 109 census tracts around the United States, the risk was suddenly unacceptable, according to the EPA’s own standards. Yet the agency didn’t take the next logical step: regulating these compounds or limiting emissions to protect residents from exposure. Instead, what happened next depended on where these hotspots were — and who was living there.....
https://theintercept.com/2019/02/24/epa-response-air-pollution-crisis-toxic-racial-divide/