"New federal decisions remove health protections as Black communities face rising pollution and asthma rates."
"On the morning of Jan. 10, when the federal government said it would stop prioritizing how many lives are saved by cutting air pollution, Sonya Sanders flashed back seven years to when a fossil fuel facility near her South Philadelphia home exploded.
The 2019 blast rattled windows across the city and could have killed thousands if the wind had blown another way. A cloud of toxic pollution spread for more than 7 miles and impacted more than a million people.
Then she thought about the quieter emergencies that never make the news: the asthma attacks on the rise in her community. Increasingly, youngsters in her neighborhood tug on inhalers at night or are left wheezing after walking past truck-choked roads to the bus stop.
Philadelphia children are more than three times as likely to have asthma as the average American child, a pattern tied to spikes in particulate pollution from the factories and highways that ring the city."
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