Urban noise pollution is worst in poor and minority neighborhoods and segregated cities

By Joan A. Casey, Postdoctoral scholar, University of California, Berkeley, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management & School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, and Peter James, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School . Under the El tracks, downtown Chicago. Franck Michel, CC BY Most Americans think of cities as noisy places…

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