A new study reveals that premature deaths and illnesses from air pollution related to gas and oil operations disproportionately affect Black, Indigenous, Asian and Latino communities.

California suffers more than any other state.

The new data come at a time when California is debating whether to wind down fossil fuel extraction.

Iretha Warmsley was born and raised in South L.A.’s Black community and for as long as she can remember, air pollution from oil and gas has been both a fact of daily life and a harbinger of death and disease.

“My father died of cancer. My uncles died of cancer. My grandfather — most of family died of cancer, or they have some type of asthma or lupus,” Warmsley said. “I feel like more of us are contracting these diseases.”

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