Historic redlining and the siting of oil and gas wells in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The presence of active or inactive (i.e., postproduction) oil and gas wells in neighborhoods may contribute to ongoing pollution. Racially discriminatory neighborhood security maps developed by the Home-Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) in the 1930s may contribute to environmental exposure disparities.

Objective

To determine whether receiving worse HOLC grades was associated with exposure to more oil and gas wells.

Methods

We assessed exposure to oil and gas wells among HOLC-graded neighborhoods in 33 cities from 13 states where urban oil and gas wells were drilled and operated. Among the 17 cities for which 1940 census data were available, we used propensity score restriction and matching to compare well exposure neighborhoods that were similar on observed 19

SUBMITTER: Gonzalez DJX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9556657 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature