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Columba Sainz

Columba Sainz

Columba Sainz is the Arizona field organizer for Moms Clean Air Force and an integral part of the organization’s EcoMadres program, which unites Latina mothers in fighting for safer, cleaner communities and environmental justice.

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Truck pollution is hurting our kids, and the EPA could do so much to stop it

By: - May 6, 2022

In 2018, my family moved into a home in South Phoenix that seemed perfect for us. It was near a day care center and across the street from Central Park. But within a few months, my daughters, who were one and two years old, started wheezing at night. Our doctor prescribed asthma medicine for my oldest […]

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Maricopa County’s air quality is awful. It doesn’t have to be that way.

By: - October 9, 2020

Maricopa County has some of the worst air quality in the nation and earned another “F” rating this year from the American Lung Association.