LA Times writer Sammy Roth shared a piece claiming that many suffer an environmental form of racism thanks to White and affluent commuters in the Los Angeles area. "He told me it largely comes down to the shameful history of Los Angeles County’s low-income communities of color being torn apart to make way for freeways — a history that has been extensively documented by The Times," he wrote. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME 'DISPROPORTIONATELY' IMPACTS 'COMMUNITIES OF COLOR,' INSISTS CNN ARTICLEThe study itself is titled, "Local Inequities in the Relative Production of and Exposure to Vehicular Air Pollution in Los Angeles." "We find that, all else equal, tracts whose residents drive less are exposed to more air pollution, as are tracts with a less-White population. As of the writing of this article, Twitter has a warning label attached to the Los Angeles Times' tweet of the article saying, "This claim is false.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 11, 2023 00:00 UTC