Campaign aims to reduce air pollution, respiratory illnesses in Arizona communities of color
- (Last Updated On: August 30, 2023)
When Karen Hernández was a child, she always wondered there weren’t as many trees around her neighborhood. She grew up in south Phoenix, a predominantly Black and Latino area.
“If we wanted to catch the shade of a tree we had to walk about a mile,” Hernandez, now 25, told The Arizona Republic.
