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Dataset associated with "Unequal airborne exposure burden to toxic metals is associated with race, ethnicity, and segregation"

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dc.contributor.authorKodros, John K
dc.contributor.authorBell, Michelle L
dc.contributor.authorDominici, Francesca
dc.contributor.authorL’Orange, Christian
dc.contributor.authorGodri Pollitt, Krystal J
dc.contributor.authorWeichenthal, Scott
dc.contributor.authorWu, Xiao
dc.contributor.authorVolckens, John
dc.coverage.spatialUnited Statesen_US
dc.coverage.temporal2009-2014en_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-24T16:15:55Z
dc.date.available2022-08-24T16:15:55Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.descriptionThis dataset contains annual and county-level mean concentrations and mass proportions of fine particulate metals (aggregated from the EPA's CSN/IMPROVE networks), associated minimum detectable limit for each monitor, as well as racial and ethnic demographic population data. This dataset is aggregated from publicly available air pollutant data from the EPA (http://views.cira.colostate.edu/fed/QueryWizard/Default.aspx) and the US Census Bureau (https://data.census.gov/cedsci/). This dataset is used to examine the association of racial residential segregation with fine particulate metal concentrations. The time period ranges from year 2009 to 2019.en_US
dc.description- Columns labeled "XX_concentration" report the annual and county-level mean concentration in ug m-3 - Columns labeled 'XX_content" report the mass proportion of fine particulate metals relative to PM2.5 mass - Columns labeled "XX_mdl" report the minimum detectable limit for that species at that monitor. In the case of more than one monitor in the county, this column reports the average. - Columns labeled "DI_XX" report the dissimilarity index for the racial/ethnic group using the non-Hispanic White population as the reference population (see associated manuscript for details), where "NHB" corresponds to non-Hispanic Black and "native_amer" to "Native American". - Columns labeled "XX_pop_county" report the county population of the respective racial/ethnic group. These groupings reflect the identification made by individuals in US Census Bureau data. "NHW" refers to "non-Hispanic White". - "CountyFIPS" refers to the county FIPS code. - "Latitude" and "Longitude" reflect the coordinates of the monitor in degrees. In the case of more than one monitor per county, these columns averages.en_US
dc.descriptionDepartment of Mechanical Engineering
dc.description.abstractCommunities of color have been exposed to a disproportionate burden of air pollution across the United States for decades. Yet, the inequality in exposure to known toxic elements of air pollution is unclear. Here, we find that populations living in racially segregated communities are exposed to a form of fine particulate matter with over three times higher mass proportions of known toxic and carcinogenic metals. While concentrations of total fine particulate matter are two times higher in racially segregated communities, concentrations of metals from anthropogenic sources are nearly ten times higher. Populations living in racially segregated communities have been disproportionately exposed to these environmental stressors throughout the past decade. We find evidence, however, that these disproportionate exposures may be abated though targeted regulatory action. For example, recent regulations on marine fuel oil not only reduced vanadium concentrations in coastal cities, but also sharply lessened differences in vanadium exposure by segregation.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported financially by grants from the Health Effects Institute under grant number 4953- RFA14-3/16-4 awarded to FD, National Institute of Health under grant numbers DP2MD012722 and P50MD010428 awarded to FD, National Institute of Health and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences under grant number R01 ES028033 awarded to FD, National Institute of Health and Columbia University under grant number 1R01ES030616 awarded to FD, the National Institute On Minority Health And Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health under award number R01MD012769 awarded to MLB and FD, the Environmental Protection Agency under grant number 83587201-0 awarded to FD and grant number RD83587101 awarded to MLB, The Climate Change Solutions Fund, and the Harvard Star Friedman Award. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health or the Environmental Protection Agency.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/235553
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25675/10217/235553
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherColorado State University. Librariesen_US
dc.relation.ispartofResearch Data
dc.relation.isreferencedbyKodros, J.K., Bell, M.L., Dominici, F. et al. Unequal airborne exposure to toxic metals associated with race, ethnicity, and segregation in the USA. Nat Commun 13, 6329 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33372-zen_US
dc.rights.licenseThe material is open access and distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Public Domain "No rights reserved" (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/
dc.subjectair pollutionen_US
dc.subjectparticulate matteren_US
dc.titleDataset associated with "Unequal airborne exposure burden to toxic metals is associated with race, ethnicity, and segregation"en_US
dc.typeDataseten_US

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