Moms Clean Air Force 53d ago

Health professionals and environmental justice advocates gathered in Tucson to mark World Asthma Day with a clear message: Arizonans are not expendable. Asthma affects 28 million Americans, causing approximately 3,500 deaths and 1 million emergency room visits every year and 44% of Americans now live in areas with unhealthy levels of ozone or particle pollution, according to the American Lung Association’s 2026 State of the Air report. Wildfire smoke continues to plague Arizona’s air quality and Tucson’s frontline communities know this crisis firsthand. Latino children are 9% more likely to have asthma. This disparity is driven in part by decades of redlining, predatory zoning, and industrial pollution concentrated in communities of color. The Trump administration’s Polluters First Agenda is making things worse. By loosening restrictions on soot, tailpipe, climate, and chemical pollution, Donald Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin have created a toxic cocktail of carcinogens that Tucsonan are forced to breathe every day while treating their lives as expendable. Today, speakers demanded that the EPA uphold science, and protect the communities most harmed by pollution. Clean air is not a partisan issue and Americans are not expendable. Speaker: Pima County Supervisor Jennifer Allen - District 3, Board Chair Dr. Brian Drummond - Emergency Medicine Physician JoAnna Strother - Senior Director of Advocacy, American Lung Association Fabiola Bedoya - Arizona Field Organizer, Moms Clean Air Force Pita Juarez - Arizona Field Organizer, Moms Clean Air Force