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Chemical Exposure From Manufactured Gas Plants: Demographic & Governmental Research, Aneeza Hussain
Chemical Exposure From Manufactured Gas Plants: Demographic & Governmental Research, Aneeza Hussain
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There are thousands of brownfields in New York on former Manufactured Gas Plants (MGP) similar to the Public Place site in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Public Place is an active brownfield abutting an EPA Superfund site currently undergoing remediation. After consulting recent literature finding that populations living on and near superfund sites have lower life expectancy that also correlate with “sociodemographic factors” like income and race, we used American Community Survey data to conduct a demographic analysis of census districts within the rezone area. Assessment of current demographic data shows that Gowanus residents living within census districts overlapping with the rezone area …