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Environmental Racism in the South Bronxnew

One in four children in the Hunts Point neighborhood has asthma. While urban planners and public health specialists are still struggling to find the cause for the community's disturbingly high asthma rates, for parents like Tanya Fields there is no question that it's the air they breathe that makes their children wheeze.
New York Press  |  Gabriele Steinhauser  |  05-08-2008  |  Science

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