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Delivery Warehouse Boom is Impacting NYC’s Low-Income Neighborhoods Most, Reports Finds
A new report published by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) details how rapid growth in warehouses and delivery truck trips across New York has increased fossil fuel emissions over the last five years—pollution that’s hitting lower-income communities of color the hardest.
Shifts in supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic led to a massive expansion of warehouses—and polluting delivery trucks that bring goods to and from them—across the country. In New York City, low-income populations are 1.2 times more likely to live within half a mile of a warehouse, and 75 percent of warehouses are located within "disadvantaged communities"—census tracts that are already disproportionately burdened by climate change, as defined in state law.
"The reason why a lot of these warehouses are placed where they are is based on histories of redlining," said Karla Sosa, one of the report’s authors. "It is a historical failing of the government to protect its people that creates situations where there are certain communities that are targeted on a recurring basis for these types of developments."
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Some NYC Public School Students Still Sweltering Without AC in Gyms, Auditoriums and Cafeterias
The city’s “AC for All” initiative, launched in 2017, aimed to bring air conditioning to every public school classroom. But the policy doesn’t require the city to verify whether the units are functioning properly, or to extend cooling to common spaces.
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Opinion: Batteries Are the Climate and Affordability Solution We’ve Been Waiting For
“Naysayers argue that transitioning to a zero-carbon economy will hurt our wallets, worsening our affordability crisis in exchange for progress on our climate crisis. Don’t believe them."
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