Ecotoxicology and Public Health
Introduction
Environmental regulations typically control single pollutants and environmental mediums (e.g., air, water) rather than cumulative environmental impacts from multiple chemical, physical, and social stressors. (1) However, marginalized communities may disproportionately experience the impacts of cumulative environmental exposures in tandem with social stressors that may further exacerbate these impacts. (1−3) Historically marginalized communities, through the social stressor of systemically racialized, residential segregation, may be particularly burdened by these cumulative environmental impacts.
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