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Racial disparities in toxic cleanup times especially pronounced in SF, data...
A toxic site in the Mission District, polluted with gasoline that leaked from storage tanks, is undergoing cleanup. Such remediations take longer in communities of color than majority-white communities. – Photo: Laura Wenus, San Francisco Public Press
Toxic waste cleanups take longer in marginalized communities
Arieann Harrison talks with longtime Hunters Point resident Antoine Mahan about his concern that truck traffic to and from the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard may be worsening air quality along Innes Avenue, where he lives. Even simple remediations lag at Bay Area sites in socially vulnerable areas, a Public Press analysis shows.

