2026
Reuters | "Pollution from Musk’s unpermitted xAI power project hits hardest in Black communities”
Reuters quoted Dr. Lara Cushing, associate professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, about a 2022 study she co-authored.
Reuters quoted Dr. Lara Cushing, associate professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, about a 2022 study she co-authored, published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Energy, that examined where power plants are sited in U.S. cities.
"The dispute echoes the findings of a 2022 study by researchers from UCLA and Columbia University and published in the Nature Energy journal that found that previously redlined communities - where banks historically discriminated against Black mortgage applicants - now face disproportionately high exposure to pollutants from fossil fuel facilities.
'Air pollution from these and other sources contributes to systemic racial disparities in chronic disease and ultimately shorter lives,' Lara Cushing, a UCLA public health professor who co-authored the study, told Reuters."
