Due to the ongoing wildfires 100 miles north of the Canadian border in Ontario and Manitoba, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency issued an air quality alert for Northeastern Minnesota that would start from 6 a.m. Monday through 8 a.m. Tuesday.
Scientists found particles in the brain stems which come from air pollution. They also discovered signs of molecular damage which is similar to that which leads to Alzheimer's Disease.
The University of Washington has produced research, which found that approximately 3.5 percent of neighborhoods in Houston have the highest risk for cancer in the nation. The research also determines that toxic conditions are a threat to many poor immigrant Latino communities.
While companies have changed practices and merged, restoration and improving the industrial legacy of Newark, New Jersey will be a long process. Newark's residents are predominately Hispanic, African American and "new immigrants." Low-income citizens and those who live in public housing are situated in some of the zones most affected by pollution.
Rosanna Esparza, 59-year-old Latina and community organizer for Clean Water Action, is posted in Taft, California, a town that's built on one of the largest oil fields in the nation. Esparza continues to speak out against the lack of transparency within the industry, the reckless distribution of pollutants, the silencing of those who raise questions and poisoning of low income people to inflate others' gluttonous wealth.
According to the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), numerous forms of pollution, such as toxic chemicals, are hidden in "plain sight," and those dangerous chemicals are affecting the Latino community. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy noted more than 3.6 million Latinos have developed asthma in the United States (U.S.), including 1 in 10 Latino children.
Recent studies show that air pollution is also a big culprit behind cardiovascular diseases. Based on new evidence, air pollution does not only aggravate cardiovascular conditions but cause it. Notably, people who live in congested areas have higher risks of heart attack and stroke.
