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Todd MichneyTodd Michney, assistant professor in the School of History and Sociology, was interviewed for the article "Redlined Neighborhoods More Likely to Have Oil and Gas Wells, Study Finds," published on April 27, 2022, in The Tennessean.
The article discussed a study by University of California, Berkeley researchers finding that communities historically subjected to redlining, the illegal practice of using race as a basis for making mortgage decisions, have a higher presence of oil and natural gas wells.
The article quoted Michney on his reaction to the research, of which he was not part. An excerpt:
Todd Michney, an assistant professor of history at Georgia Institute of Technology who studies the origins of redlining, called the results “shocking but not surprising.”
“It’s just another way in which low-income neighborhoods and especially neighborhoods of color have been subjected to disproportionate environmental burdens,” Michney said.
