By Fabiola Bedoya, Moms Clean Air Force

I’m a mom raising my son here in Tucson, in the same desert where I grew up. Every August, as we check off the school supply list — pencils, notebooks, new shoes — I can’t help but think about the most important supply that’s missing: clean air. Without it, no amount of sharpened pencils or new textbooks will help our kids thrive.

Our roads are clogged with traffic, and every day, cars, trucks, and buses, including school buses, pump out exhaust that lingers in our neighborhoods. The worst pollution settles near highways and busy roads — often where working families and communities of color live. These are our homes, our neighborhoods, and our schools — and too often, diesel school buses only add to the toxic air our children breathe. And we’re the

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