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reasoningdaily · 10 months

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Black parents and their children are more likely to experience unfair treatment when seeking medical care than others, a new study from the Urban Institute found.

The study, released earlier this week, is based on data from the nonprofit’s Health Reform Monitoring Survey, the latest round of which was conducted in June.

Researchers found that about 22% of Black parents said they were judged unfairly or mistreated because of their race or ethnicity, language, health insurance type, weight, income, disability or other characteristics.

The rate at which Black parents reported this treatment was about 10% higher than parents who are White, Hispanic or who identify as part of other racial groups, the survey found.

“These experiences are disproportionately affecting parents of color and their children, especially Black parents, and so understanding and interrupting these experiences of under-treatment and health care could be an important step towards helping to close a lot of the racial and ethnic health inequities that we see,” Dulce Gonzalez, a senior researcher at the Urban Institute and co-author of the study, told CNN.

Race, ethnicity, country of origin and primary language were among the most common reasons why Black parents said they were treated unfairly.

The study found that 7 in 10 parents who reported experiencing unfair health care treatment were more likely to delay treatments after those experiences.

The unfair treatment could have negative health consequences, cause additional stress to patients and lead them to mistrust the health care system to the point of forgoing necessary treatments, Gonzalez said.

“There’s going to be a lot of changes that are needed on multiple fronts that address … not only sort-of implicit and explicit biases that providers and their staff could hold towards people of color, but also just broader changes in how we’re delivering health care,” she said.

The survey was conducted online among a nationally representative sample of 9,494 US adults ages 18 to 64, but the analysis was based on the responses of 2,981 parents of children under age 19.

#Black parents and their children are more likely to experience unfair treatment when seeking medical care #study finds #Black Children #systemic racism #adultification #adultification of Black Children

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ausetkmt · 1 year

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It Could Cost $21 Billion to Clean Up California’s Oil Sites, Study Finds

For well over a century, the oil and gas industry has drilled holes across California in search of black gold and a lucrative payday. But with production falling steadily, the time has come to clean up many of the nearly quarter-million wells scattered from downtown Los Angeles to western Kern County and across the state.

The bill for that work, however, will vastly exceed all the industry’s future profits in the state, according to a first-of-its-kind study published Thursday and shared with ProPublica.

“This major issue has sneaked up on us,” said Dwayne Purvis, a Texas-based petroleum reservoir engineer who analyzed profits and cleanup costs for the report. “Policymakers haven’t recognized it. Industry hasn’t recognized it, or, if they have, they haven’t talked about it and acted on it.”

The analysis, which was commissioned by Carbon Tracker Initiative, a financial think tank that studies how the transition away from fossil fuels impacts markets and the economy, used California regulators’ draft methodology for calculating the costs associated with plugging oil and gas wells and decommissioning them along with related infrastructure. The methodology was developed with feedback from the industry.

The report broke down the costs into several categories. Plugging wells, dismantling surface infrastructure and decontaminating polluted drill sites would cost at least $13.2 billion, based on publicly available data. Adding in factors with slightly more uncertainty, like inflation rates and the price of decommissioning miles of pipeline, could bring the total cleanup bill for California’s onshore oil and gas industry to $21.5 billion.

Meanwhile, California oil and gas production will earn about $6.3 billion in future profits over the remaining course of operations, Purvis estimated.

Compounding the problem, the industry has set aside only about $106 million that state regulators can use for cleanup when a company liquidates or otherwise walks away from its responsibilities, according to state data. That amount equals less than 1% of the estimated cost.

Taxpayers will likely have to cover much of the difference to ensure wells are plugged and not left to leak brine, toxic chemicals and climate-warming methane.

“These findings detail why the state must ensure this cost is not passed along to the California taxpayer,” state Sen. Monique Limón, a Santa Barbara Democrat who has written legislation regulating oil, said in a statement. “It is important that the state collect funding to plug and abandon wells in a timely and expeditious manner.”

Representatives of the state’s oil regulatory agency, the California Geologic Energy Management Division, did not respond to ProPublica’s request for comment on the report’s findings.

Rock Zierman, CEO of the California Independent Petroleum Association, an industry trade group, said in a statement that companies spent more than $400 million last year to plug and clean up thousands of oil and gas wells in the state. “This demonstrates their dedication to fulfilling their obligations and mitigating the environmental impact of their operations,” he said.

Fees on current oil and gas production will offset some of the liabilities, but they’re nowhere near enough to address the shortfall quantified by the new report.

“It really scares me,” Kyle Ferrar, Western program coordinator with environmental and data transparency group FracTracker Alliance, said of the report’s findings. “It’s a lot for the state, even a state as big as California.”

Industry in Decline

High oil prices have translated to huge profits for the industry in recent years, but Carbon Tracker’s report found that’s likely to be short-lived. Only two drilling rigs were operating in the state at one point this year, meaning few new wells will be coming online, and more than a third of all unplugged wells are idle.

Judson Boomhower, an environmental economist and assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego who has studied California’s oil industry, said there are inherent uncertainties in estimating future oil revenues. For example, one variable is how quickly the country shifts from internal combustion engine vehicles to electric. But, he said, Carbon Tracker’s estimates for environmental liabilities track with his research.

“It’s a state in the twilight of its production period, and that means big liabilities,” Boomhower said. He added that now is the time for regulators to prevent companies from offloading their wells to “thinly capitalized firms” unable to shoulder the cleanup.

As ProPublica reported last year, the major oil companies that long dominated in California and have the deep pockets necessary to pay for environmental cleanup are selling their wells and leaving the state, handing the task to smaller and less well-financed companies.

Roughly half of the wells drilled in California have changed hands through sales and bankruptcies since 2010, according to data Ferrar analyzed.

Smaller companies are often one bankruptcy away from their wells being orphaned, meaning they’re left to taxpayers as companies dissolve. The Biden administration recently committed $4.7 billion in taxpayer funds to plug orphan wells.

And the industry’s environmental liabilities in California are far bigger than Carbon Tracker’s report quantifies.

Purvis only included environmental liabilities associated with onshore oil and gas production. Billions of dollars more will be needed to plug offshore wells, remove rigs and reclaim artificial islands used for drilling off the coast of Long Beach, Ventura and Santa Barbara.

Additionally, the report did not quantify the emerging risk of “zombie wells,” which were plugged years ago to weaker standards and are likely to leak if they aren’t replugged. That’s an expensive endeavor, as the average cost to plug one well in California — to say nothing of cleaning up surface contamination — is $69,000, according to Purvis’ research. But some California wells have already begun failing, including in neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

“They’re Not Going to Have Money to Do It Later”

Time is running out to rectify the funding shortfall, for example by increasing the money companies must set aside for well plugging.

Carbon Tracker’s report — using state production data and financial futures contracts on the New York Mercantile Exchange — estimated that as production declines, 58% of all future profits from drilling oil and gas in the state are likely to come over the next two years.

“We have our backs up against the wall in California right now,” Ferrar said. “If companies don’t put money towards it now, they’re not going to have money to do it later.”

Environmental policies could accelerate the industry’s decline. California voters will decide on a ballot initiative in 2024 that would reinstate large buffer zones between communities and oil wells, limiting drilling.

Purvis said acting quickly to plug wells would also “stimulate economic activity” and help smooth the transition for oil and gas workers who stand to lose well-paying jobs in the shift away from climate-warming fossil fuels. Spending large sums to plug old wells would create short-term employment for oil field workers.

As California faces the consequences of its failure to quickly clean up aging oil and gas infrastructure, there are likely several million more wells around the country that are either low-producing or already orphaned and will soon need to be decommissioned.

“California’s going to be a test case or the leading edge of this,” Boomhower said. “This same problem is eventually going to manifest everywhere.”

#czlifornia #epa #environmental disasters #oil wells #plug oil wells in california #It Could Cost $21 Billion to Clean Up California’s Oil Sites #Study Finds

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kingdrawcse · 1 year

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Yes, We Can End TB

1.6 million people. That’s how many died from TB in 2021, according to the World Health Organization...

Vivien Leigh, the British national actress who played Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, was plagued for more than 20 years and finally killed by tuberculosis.

Albert Schatz first isolated streptomycin in 1943 from Streptomyces griseus and Streptomycin was the first molecule active against TB.

World Tuberculosis Day, observed on 24 March each year, is designed to build public awareness about the global epidemic of tuberculosis (TB) and efforts to eliminate the disease.

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theboxfort · 5 months

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Peace and love

#pink posts #i saw a tweet that was like “i see other people's art” --> i get discouraged #i understand that seeing art that is prettier than yours can be discouraging but why not twist that a bit?#why does it look prettier to you? is it the colors #is it the textures they used? the brushes?#study them and try to put your spin on it #and maybe you'll find your art beautiful as well

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ranseur · 1 year

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Jessie studies hard for her pokemon medical license exams.

#(clenches fist) i need them all to have a soft epilogue #in reference to Lofi Study Stream Girl because i'm too lazy to find out what the interior of the Ketchum home looks like u__u #hanamusashipping #ransart

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zonetrente-trois · 9 months

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#Kevin Bacon #Study Finds #mathematicians #six degrees of separation

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iwan1979 · 10 months

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#Millions of crypto investors’ wallets at risk of attacks due to security flaws #study finds

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moncuries · 5 months

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older wolfstar mess

#in my portrait study era ig #small brush from the last kierthur doodle rlly got me and its way less daunting to do close ups #plus and also i can work thru my heap of homoerotic reference pics #ive never rlly gotten to draw them grown and i do love these little guys #little wrinkles #marauders #wolfstar #sirius black #remus lupin #my art #mwpp era #the ref i worked from is of two guys in bed i cant find it anymore but yeah wolfstar in bed domestic

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puppyeared · 6 months

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these two are so interesting to me

characters belong to @canisalbus

#clenches fists. im so sosososo normal about them. i think about them a normal amount (lying)#actually the 2nd image is based on some sort of anime couple pose template(?????) that i saw a while back and wanted to draw them in it #but i swear to god i CANNOT FUCKING FIND IT. i was literally knee deep in yuri and yaoi fanart for hours trying to find that god damn photo #but i dont even know who the characters were and pinterest just shows me bakugou and deku making out sloppy style whenever i try #so i gave up an tried drawing it from memory and cried the whole time. i hate anatomy.. but they look so happy so its fine #god whenever i see Lore or sweet little tidbits for these two i want to tear into something with my teeth and throw something /pos #i genuinely want to study these gay little renaissance dogs under a microscope #what fucks me up is the fact that we all know it ends horribly but u cant help loving them anyway.. they are so. incoherent hand gestures #my art #myart #others ocs #vasco #machete #vaschete #furry art #fur #anthro

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creek-ink · 16 days

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which one??

ref^

#red one seems more menacing i think #finding a background that fit w this was impossible omfg #my art #creepypasta fandom #creepypasta #creepypasta fanart #digital art #fanart #slenderverse #ticci toby #ticci toby headcanons #ticci toby x y/n #ticci toby hc #ticci toby x reader #ticci toby fanart #light study #art study

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britcision · 1 year

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Guys I have spoken to teens on this website and it never occurred to me before but

How are the kids finding us these days

Y’all seeing the memes and posts on other platforms and just following over? Are we “cool” again? I’ve only been back since mobile was a feasible option but I find this fascinating from an anthropological perspective

I’ve got a decade on most of my cousins and I doubt any of them have even heard of tumblr but they’re hitting 20s now so have we looped back around?

Guys is tumblr retro????

Please do not tell me your actual age just give me the vibes

#tumblr #my poll #please let me find #please let me study y’all with absolutely no identifying info #i just wanna know how we are spreading #for science

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maybebi47 · 3 months

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what absolutely breaks my heart about what sklonda said (even though i dont blame her at all btw) is that she truly doesn't know how much riz's friends gave up for him in the past, especially kristen, i mean she chose to cure him instead of herself in the nightmare forest! she chose to keep him safe even when she knew that the chance of her dying bc of that decision was so high

but

thats the thing about kristen that dooms her every single time isnt it? with tracker, with cassandra, with her friends. she has so much devotion for the people she loves, she would die for them in a heartbeat, but her love is so grand and most people aren't looking from a distance, you know? she would die for them but she wouldn't think to help them w homework or help them clean up their house or call them first or check up on someone she promised she will keep checking up on. her love is powerful and she is inherently kind, but no one sees it bc its not the type of love you can see day to day, so she often comes across as uncaring, and that breaks my heart.

#kristen applebees #i need to study u in a lab #to find out whats wrong with you (me)#d20 #dimension 20 #riz gukgak #fantasy high #fhjy #fantasy high junior year

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rtoffanin · 1 year

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Hospitalizations for pediatric suicidal behavior increased by 163 percent over an 11-year period, an analysis of millions of hospital admissions in the United States found.

BY ELLEN BARRY | NYTimes Health | Disclosure

#News Updates #Hospitals Are Increasingly Crowded With Kids Who Tried to Harm Themselves #Study Finds

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monkawonka · 10 months

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He’s being forced to read law books :(

Pose x

#ace attorney #phoenix wright #aa phoenix wright #phoenix wright ace attorney #miles edgeworth #makeing a new series of distressed lawyers from Pinterest ref #another lawyer butt? its more likely than you think #monka mumbles #monka makes art #edit: added ref image link just so that ppl can find and use it. also i just slapped my drawing over the ref cuz backgrounds hard :(#this was just a study that i turned into fanart anyways soooooo

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chihirolovebot · 6 months

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on a real note that bit near the end of the video was genuinely haunting. hearing somerton talk about how gay writers are erased from history was one thing (with all the irony being that he stepped on the backs of numerous underpaid, underprivileged and uncredited queer writers to build his youtube channel) but when h revealed it wasn't even somerton's quote in the first place? the worst, most crushing sort of irony. how do you lament about the erasure of gay people and gay writers in history... whilst erasing a gay writer and taking his words as your own?

#it's genuinely unconscionable and its given me a lot to think about #i found somerton through his video essay on killing stalking #one of my favourite psychological horrors #i was overjoyed to find someone who seemed to recognise it for the dark character study of trauma and abuse that it was #and not a love story #now all i want to do is go back to that video and search up the phrases in google #to see who really wrote those words and phrases that got to me so deeply #fuck man . what a disappointment #james somerton #hbomberguy #veetxt

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moneyalphanews · 2 years

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Brits are spending an average of £117 on kitchen energy bills, study finds

Research has revealed what a typical month’s energy usage looks like for the average Brit – with the kitchen using £117 of electricity in total.A poll of 2,000 UK adults revealed Read Full Text

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#Brits are spending an average of £117 on kitchen energy bills #Money #News #study finds #Top #UK #US

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