Moms Clean Air Force

Fighting for Our Kids' Health

Sources: Extreme Heat and Black Communities

  1. https://www.momscleanairforce.org/resources/extreme-heat-and-latino-communities/
  2. https://info.primarycare.hms.harvard.edu/review/african-americans-extreme-heat
  3. https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/killer-heat-united-states-0
  4. https://www.epa.gov/green-infrastructure/reduce-urban-heat-island-effect
  5. https://www.lung.org/clean-air/outdoors/who-is-at-risk/disparities
  6. https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2022/07/ENVIRONMENTAL%20RACISM%20CERD%20SHADOW%20REPORT%202022.7.18%20%5BFINAL%5D_0.pdf
  7. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7037907/
  8. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2021/03/usa-environmental-racism-cancer-alley-must-end-experts
  9. https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/omh/browse.aspx?lvl=4&lvlid=15
  10. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6924a1.htm#:~:text=Non%2DHispanic%20blacks%20had%20the,(%200.3%20per%20100%2C000%20population)
  11. https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-23-105871.pdf
  12. https://ccp.jhu.edu/2021/05/17/maternal-mortality-black-mamas-race-momnibus/
  13. https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/07/extreme-heat-makes-pregnancy-more-dangerous/#:~:text=And%20heat%20exposure%20during%20pregnancy,infant%20death%20soon%20after%20birth
  14. https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america
  15. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/24/climate/racism-redlining-cities-global-warming.html
  16. https://www.epa.gov/heatislands
  17. https://www.latimes.com/science/la-xpm-2013-jul-09-la-sci-sn-minorities-urban-heat-islands-20130709-story.html
  18. https://www.apa.org/monitor/2016/11/cover-inequality-school#:~:text=Research%20shows%20that%20compared%20with,lower%20expectations%20from%20their%20teachers
  19. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/eliminating-black-white-wealth-gap-generational-challenge/
  20. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/2018/sep/focus-reducing-racial-disparities-health-care-confronting-racism
  21. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/09/climate/city-heat-islands.html
  22. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/city-hotter-countryside-urban-heat-island-science-180951985/#:~:text=Because%20of%20the%20%E2%80%9Curban%20heat,the%20U.S.%20Environmental%20Protection%20Agency
  23. https://news.agu.org/press-release/us-wide-non-white-neighborhoods-are-hotter-than-white-ones/
  24. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/climate/heat-minority-school-performance.html
  25. https://www.momscleanairforce.org/resources/extreme-heat-and-latino-communities/
  26. https://www.nber.org/digest/aug18/hotter-school-days-less-learning-unless-theres-ac#:~:text=Without%20air%20conditioning%2C%20each%201,the%20negative%20effects%20virtually%20disappear
  27. https://www.weather.gov/safety/heat
  28. https://blog.ucsusa.org/rachel-licker/5-great-public-health-resources-for-dealing-with-extreme-heat/

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