Desert Healthcare District Looks To Improve Air Quality [Video]

Desert Healthcare District hosted a meeting for local leaders this afternoon, giving them the opportunity to share their ideas on how we can better improve our air quality here in the desert. “We’re noticing that poor air quality seems to be something that these last couple of years has been incrementally getting worse and worse throughout the Coachella Valley.” Alejandro Espinoza, the Chief of Community Engagement for Desert Healthcare District and Foundation says. DHCD laid out studies done within the past 10 years, giving participants the chance to evaluate how it has greatly impacted the health of all individuals within the valley. Experts tell us after Tropical Storm Hilary, we’re seeing conditions worsen. Studies from 2018 to 2020 show about six days of poor air quality each year, with that increasing in recent months. “Now we’re seeing more and more of that post Hilary, we know that post Hilary, you …