Comunidades Latinas en Riesgo

The report finds that millions of Latinos in the US are disproportionately exposed to toxic air pollutants and ozone from oil and gas infrastructure, leading to significant health burdens. It highlights that 1.81 million Latinos live within a half-mile of such facilities and 1.78 million live in counties where cancer risks exceed EPA concern levels. The document argues that poverty and lack of health insurance exacerbate these risks, and calls for the EPA to regulate existing facilities, not just new ones, to protect public health and address climate change.

• Over 1.81 million Latinos, representing 4% of the national Latino population, live within a half-mile radius of existing oil and gas facilities, including wells, compressors, and processing plants.
• Approximately 1.78 million Latinos live in counties where the risk of cancer from toxic emissions from the oil and gas industry exceeds the US EPA's level of concern (one in a million).
• Oil and gas emissions contributing to summer ozone levels are linked to 153,000 asthma attacks in Latino children and 112,000 lost school days annually.
• Socioeconomic factors, including higher poverty rates (25% of the Hispanic population in 2014) and lower health insurance coverage (26% of Latinos under 65 uninsured in 2014), increase the health burden on Latino communities.
• Texas is the state with the highest number of Latinos living within a half-mile of oil and gas facilities, with over 800,000 people.
• The report argues that EPA regulations finalized in June 2016 for new and modified facilities are insufficient because at least 75% of existing wells and infrastructure remain largely unregulated.

APA

Fleischman, L., Kingland, D., Maxwell, C., & Rios, E. (2016). Comunidades Latinas en Riesgo. Clean Air Task Force. https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/21094455/CATF_Pub_ComunidadesLatinasEnRiesgo.pdf

Chicago

Fleischman, Lesley, Declan Kingland, Christopher Maxwell, and Elena Rios. Comunidades Latinas en Riesgo. Clean Air Task Force, 2016. https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/21094455/CATF_Pub_ComunidadesLatinasEnRiesgo.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{fleischman2016comunidades, author = {Fleischman, Lesley and Kingland, Declan and Maxwell, Christopher and Rios, Elena}, title = {{Comunidades Latinas en Riesgo}}, institution = {Clean Air Task Force}, year = {2016}, month = sep, url = {https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/21094455/CATF_Pub_ComunidadesLatinasEnRiesgo.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }