THE COLOR OF CLIMATE

Air Pollution Was Crippling Black Communities on the Gulf Coast. Then Came Covid-19.

Researchers are empowering residents to advocate for better protection by providing them with hyper-local health data

Drew Costley
Published in
5 min readNov 6, 2020

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Healthcare workers push a patient into a less intensive unit from the Covid-19 Unit at Houston United Memorial Medical Center
Photo: Mark Felix/AFP/Getty Images

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Drew Costley
Future Human

Drew Costley is a Staff Writer at FutureHuman covering the environment, health, science and tech. Previously @ SFGate, East Bay Express, USA Today, etc.