A new Dallas air monitoring plan will gather pollution exposure data. It’s part of the city’s new equity policy, to recognize past injustice in certain neighborhoods. NBC 5’s Ken Kalthoff reports the monitors may also change future city policy
Her neighborhood is a historic Freedman’s community, where people of color were once forced to live. Today it is a neighborhood close to jobs, where the City of Dallas encourages new home construction and new residents.
She is a member of the Dallas Environmental Commission, which is now confronting environmental issues that were sometimes neglected in the past, with support from that equity policy.
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