Study: Redlining tied to more oil, gas wells in urban areas


              FILE - A natural gas well is juxtaposed with apartment buildings a few hundred feet away in Arlington, Texas, on Monday, Oct. 25, 2021.   A new study finds that minority neighborhoods where residents were long denied home loans through a practice called redlining have twice as many oil and gas wells as mostly white neighborhoods.  (AP Photo/Martha Irvine)
            
              FILE- A pump jack is silhouetted against the setting sun in Oklahoma City on March 22, 2012. Minority neighborhoods where residents were long denied home loans have twice as many oil and gas wells as mostly white neighborhoods, according to a new study that suggests ongoing health risks in vulnerable communities are at least partly tied to historical structural racism. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
Study: Redlining tied to more oil, gas wells in urban areas