Racial, ethnic, and income disparities in air pollution: A study of excess emissions in Texas.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Excess emissions are pollutant releases that occur during periods of startups, shutdowns or malfunctions and are considered violations of the U.S. Clean Air Act. They are an important, but understudied and under-regulated, category of pollution releases given their frequency and magnitude. In this paper, we examine the demographic correlates of excess emissions, using data from industrial sources in Texas.

Methods

We conduct two complementary sets of analyses: one at the census tract level and one at the facility level. At the census tract level, we use a multinomial logit model to examine the relationships between racial, ethnic, and income characteristics and the incidence of excess emissions. At the facility level, we first estimate a logit model to examine whet

SUBMITTER: Li Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6677308 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature