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E-commerce is driving up pollution near warehouses
Warehouses are magnets for truck pollution.
“I would argue that it’s a very meaningful, impactful amount [of NO2 pollution],” says lead study author Gaige Kerr, an assistant research professor at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health. But the study authors were able to gather data on nitrogen dioxide in 2021 from a European Space Agency (ESA) satellite instrument that takes daily readings as it orbits around the planet. Neighborhood activists have fought for years to stop warehouses from being built too close to homes and have called on e-retailers to switch to electric vehicles to alleviate pollution.
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