While climate change and poor air quality are global issues concerning all people, 29-year-old Darren Riley has found that the ZIP code people are born into can disproportionately put them in harm's way.
Some innovators are harnessing air quality data to expose environmental racism.This is the fourth and final episode of ABC News Digital's four-part series"Green New Future," which highlights innovators and environmental solutions.
"I think air quality is a sliver of all of many injustices that we see in the world that we can really focus on," Riley told ABC News.Darren examines the data from JustAir's ten sensors that are placed throughout Grand Rapids. Through discriminatory practices such as redlining, cities in the U.S. have been divided and designed with toxic industries disproportionately running through areas inhabited by communities of color, according to Ali.can determine the long-term health of their lungs and subsequently, their life expectancy.JP Keenen/ABC News
The U.S Environmental Protection Agency mandates that cities track their air quality levels using a monitor that tracks dust, metals and other matter that could affect the lungs.The EPA regulations state there must be a minimum of one monitor per city, but community advocates argue there must be more. Grand Rapids, Michigan, where Riley piloted his project, has just one monitor that reports on the city's air quality level.
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