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"We can trace many of these present-day environmental, socioeconomic, and health inequities to explicit decisions and urban planning policies in the 20th century like 'redlining'," said Dr Jeremy Hoffman, the chief scientist at the Science Museum of Virginia, who was not involved in this new study.