Abstract

Evidence on environmental justice studies linking adverse health effects and on-roadair pollution showing spatial nonstationarity is limited.This study uses cancer and noncancer risk estimates from on-road sources of hazardous air pollutants modeled by the National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment (NATA) at the census tract (N = 5265) level and sociodemographic variables from U.S. Census Bureau to examine the nonstationarity spatial relationship by comparing aspatial and spatial regression modelsglobal ordinary least squares, spatial error model, geographically weighted regression, and multiscale geographically weighted regression. At first glance, census tracts within the highest quartile of cancer and noncancer risks were clustered in the major urban areas. Spatial regression indicates that cancer and non-cancer risk were associated with census tract level percentages of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). These findings can serve as geospatial guidance for intervening in the processes that drive socio-spatial disparity in air pollution exposure.

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