Fighting for the ‘luxury’ of air in Kentucky’s worst region for pollution

By: Sarah Ladd

Outlets: Kentucky Lantern

Published: April 22, 2026

Words: 1,851

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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For Louisville high school math teacher Lindsay Thurman, air quality isn’t an abstract concept; her body tenses and cramps as she fights through pollutants to breathe.

Thurman lives with the rare pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), which features “abnormally high” blood pressure in lung arteries, according to the National Organization for Rare Disorders.

“It just seems as though my lungs were kind of built wrong, and the blood vessels in my lungs constrict …

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