Everyone has a right to breathe clean air
Air Alliance Houston is a non-profit advocacy organization working to reduce the public health impacts from air pollution and advance environmental justice.
Air Alliance Houston is a non-profit advocacy organization working to reduce the public health impacts from air pollution and advance environmental justice.
Air pollution affects all Houstonians but disproportionately affects Environmental Justice communities – often working-class communities of color. They are frequently located next to freeways, train paths, the Port of Houston, and industrial facilities among other sources of air pollution.
most ozone-polluted city
(American Lung Association, 2023)
hazardous facilities in the region
(EPA, 2019)
adults in Houston are living with asthma
(Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2017-2019)
of illegal emissions go unpenalized in Texas
(Environmental Integrity Project, 2017)
