New research finds that Superfund sites – hazardous waste areas prioritized for cleanup by the U.S. government – show differences in remediation based on the racial demographics of the affected community. Specifically, Superfund sites proximate to large Asian and Asian-American populations tend to receive less remediation compared to other communities. The study, co-authored by QSIDE Co-Founder and Chief Research Officer Chad Topaz, Ph.D., builds on previous scholarship that examined disparities in Superfund cleanup, but that had not found these disparities because Asian/Asian American communities were left out of those analyses.
The study appears in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nexus.
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