The Fight For Clean Air In Kansas City, Kansas

In cities across the US, heavily polluted industrial zones are often established adjacent to communities of color and low-income residents. As a part of the PBS documentary series, Flatland in Focus, residents living in Wyandotte County, KS neighborhood advocate for clean air.

Wyandotte County has the worst air quality of all counties in Kansas, yet it’s EPA air monitors are sparse and placed outside of the most impacted neighborhoods. Residents with the help of the environmental justice organization, Clean Air Now have taken matters into their own hands and set up a network of air monitors of their own.

Watch the full story here.

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