Baltimore Is Suing Big Oil
“But in Baltimore, a city with a median income of $42,665 and an unemployment rate of 11.8 percent where nearly a quarter of residents are living under the poverty line, the costs of climate mitigation can hit harder. As the UCS noted in a press release: ‘These impacts will ripple far beyond property values … Poverty and such climate-related threats as coastal flooding intersect to create hotspots of heightened risk. And people living in these communities that stand to lose the most have the least amount of resources to adapt or relocate to safer areas.’”