Do these people ever leave their houses? All one has to do is drive over that big, rambling mountain range east of ABQ and then behold sprawling desert, followed by more desert (and the town of Moriarty).
While most of the state is wide-open desert with some forests, that range due east of Albuquerque does cause some pollution issues. I live NW of Albuquerque in Rio Rancho (Sandoval County). We don't have to emissions test here, but my buddy two miles south of me, in NW ABQ (Bernalillo County) does. Technically, I am supposed to test if I commute over x-number of days per year into ABQ, but there's no way to enforce that.
The mountains tend to trap the air in the Rio Grande valley. You can see the haze just about year round looking east toward the mountains. It's really not bad, but it is there. The wind blows so much here it tends to clear it out on a regular basis.
The worst pollution in the state now is the smoke from the U.S. Forest Service-caused Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon fire complex north of us.