Marine ports are a crucial piece of the global economy, and shipping traffic in New England is surging. Increasingly, public health experts and community activists are speaking out about the health costs — asthma, heart disease and even cancer. Those costs are paid by the people who live nearby, overwhelmingly people of color and lower-income residents.
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