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Woodlands Christian Center

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Breathing Lessons

Galena Park, Texas
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“Breathing Lessons” is featured in Texas Architect’s July/August Public-Private-Civic issue. In the article, Celeste Ponce writes about how residents of Galena Park mobilize to fight chemical air pollution.

On a late November morning I met with Juan Flores, a lifelong resident of the Houston suburb Galena Park. Flores is also the community air monitoring program manager for Air Alliance Houston, a nonprofit that works with local communities to advance environmental justice. Together, he and I toured the city, visiting key sites along the way. Clinton Drive’s diesel emissions from the north coupled with emissions from the large clusters of refineries and petrochemical plants to the south means that chemical air pollution is a real problem for neighborhood residents — nearly half of Galena Park’s 10,000 residents live within one mile of an industrial plant.