Lisa Blunt Rochester actually said...

"Last week, the American Lung Association released their annual State of the Air Report, showing that 40 percent of Americans live in areas where the air is unsafe to breathe."

"COVID-19 has only exacerbated this and shown us just how dangerous air pollution is to human health, particularly in our frontline communities."

"Fewer than one-third of U.S. counties have monitors, meaning that families don't have access to real-time information about the air they are breathing."

"While the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated environmental justice concerns in communities across the country, these concerns are not new."