The Huffington Post
By Benjamin Todd Jealous
The president Obama began the month last with an environmental speech from large-scale summer at Georgetown University. He gave a plan for its administration at the battle of climate change: among other things, the plans of the White House to limit the carbon emissions for power plants to coal and work to double renewable energy sources.
As this plan takes shape, it is important to remember that is most affected by climate change and pollution of coal specifically: communities in low-income and color.
Pollution from coal-fired electric plants is estimated to cause 13 200 premature deaths and 9,700 hospitalizations in the United States each year. She was associated with asthma attacks, lung inflammation, chronic bronchitis, irregular cardiac disorders and birth defects. Nothing of what is called 'check emissions' introduced in the past few years have been far enough to reduce these figures.
If you look more deep, we can see exactly which communities and neighborhoods bear the brunt of the impact. According to census data, the 6 million Americans who live within three miles of a coal plant have an average income of $18,400, compared to $21,857 throughout the country. Thirty - nine percent are people of color. Thus, emissions from the combustion of coal often wrong those who are least able to afford the effects of exposure.
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