One of the goals of the Green New Deal is to provide clean air to all Americans.
Here is a picture of what air quality in America looks like on April 27, 2019:

https://aqicn.org/map/northamerica/
Green is good, yellow bad, red worse and purple just horrible. The picture changes from day to day, of course, but it’s clear that most Americans do enjoy clean air on most days of the year. But as with water pollution (and almost everything else that is bad in our land), air pollution is tougher on the poor and minorities. Not only are they exposed to more of it, they have fewer resources to deal with it.
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