Pollution control reduces inequality

Air pollution has a disproportionate impact on low-income communities and communities of color.

For far too long, power plants and other polluting facilities have been placed in our neighborhoods. Highways have been consciously designed to pass through, or next to, our homes and businesses. This has exposed us to air pollution from burning fossil fuels from power plants, cars and trucks, which has put all of us — and especially our precious children, seniors and people with medical issues — at a higher risk of asthma and other illnesses.

I support clean energy as a matter of justice, ensuring no family has to struggle with the poison of air pollution from fossil fuels, and I write with the hope that every community has access to the health and economic benefits of clean energy.

Our Legislature is working on a number of measures that will increase access to the clean energy economy for our communities. This not only will bring cleaner air and healthier communities, but it will help build good jobs.

I urge all of us to support the clean-energy and outdoor recreation legislation in the Nevada state Senate and Assembly. The Rev. Ralph E. Williamson, North Las Vegas