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The Health Consequences of Air Pollution

Pollution intersects with all the pre-existing fractures in our society. It is still a problem that breaks along lines of economic inequality and racial injustice. A neighborhood called Manchester next to 52 miles of oil refineries has been hit hard by air pollution. The smells can go everything from an extremely like saccharin super sweet smell to smelling, you know, burning basketballs and sneakers.

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