Climate change is making the job of ensuring clean air more difficult.
, even as air quality overall improved in the years 2019 through 2021, according to the latest report from the American Lung Association.
People of color disproportionately lived in areas with an unhealthy air quality, the report also found. They were 64% more likely than white people to live in a county with a failing grade on at least one of three measures of air quality, and 3.7 times more likely to live in a county with a failing grades on all three measures.
As far as the western United States, more than 18 million residents live in counties with failing grades on all three measures. The 25 counties with the worst record for short-term particle pollution were all in the West.
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