&gt; what was particularly striking was... the highest polluting facilities were also more likely to be located in proximity to poor and minority neighborhoods.<p>This is what&#x27;s &quot;particularly striking&quot;? There&#x27;s only one substantial class of people who would knowingly live near extreme pollution: people who can&#x27;t afford to move away. The most trivial of logic dictates that if anyone is living near extreme pollution, there&#x27;s a substantial probability they&#x27;re poor.<p>Now, that said, news about this new study saying that the problem is bad that quantifies the problem, tells us why it&#x27;s worse than these EJ scholars suspected, or even just a reminder that this is bad and these peoples&#x27; lives should be improved, sure, go ahead... but the above statement of shock detracts from that, I should think.