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But it remains impossible to say yet whether the program has improved the smoggy and toxic air that almost 4 million people breathe in 15 communities.

Mabalon, who developed asthma growing up in Stockton, died three years ago from an asthma attack while vacationing in Hawaii, at age 45.

The city has some of the highest rates of emergency room visits for asthma in the state.

The new law — less stringent than an earlier version that died in the Assembly — was supposed to end the unequal pollution burden.

For cynical fun, perhaps rival candidates could compete in the first Robert Moses memorial boat race between Rye and Oyster Bay, since no bridge was ever built to connect them.

Two of the 18 Stockton census tracts included in the state program are ranked in the top 1% of the most pollution-burdened in California.