As extreme weather events become more common in the United States due to worsening effects of climate change, access utilities like electricity and water will be continually strained. Blackouts intermittent utility interruptions impact low-income communities color most negatively. While renewable energy technologies promise alleviation emissions pollution, high cost a lack equitable infrastruct...

Introduction The existence of a social gradient in tobacco use has been clearly established in a number of countries with people with lower socioeconomic status being more likely to use tobacco. It is not clear how far this gradient is evident within severely deprived communities. This study assessed the association between occupation as a marker of socioeconomic status and use of smoked and sm...

Abstract Small, low-income communities in the United States disproportionately lack access to safe drinking water (i.e. that meets regulated quality standards). At a community level, literature has broadly claimed major barrier is low technical, managerial, and financial (TMF) capacity. broader structural environmental justice shown historical neglect of color resulted numerous systems without ...