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DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit area woke up Wednesday to some of the worst air quality in the United States as smoke from Canada’s wildfires settled over most of the Great Lakes region and ...
Smoke, primarily from wildfires burning in Canada, as well as from the Oregon Fire and two other fires in Spokane County caused Spokane, Washington to have the worst air quality in the United States for two days, on August 19 and 20. Air quality index levels reached a peak level of 511 in Spokane in the morning of August 20. [14]
Mariela Ruacho, clean air advocacy manager for the ALA in California, said transportation is the leading contributor to ozone pollution in California, and the growth of intense wildfires heavily ...
Around one-third of people in the U.S. live with unhealthy levels of air pollution, according to the American Lung Association. Wildfires are causing more short-term spikes.
During June 2023, due to early season wildfires in Canada, cities like New York and Washington D.C. suffered from dangerous levels of air pollution. It was the worst regional air quality in decades for the Northeast. [6]
WA air quality by county. Air quality is reported by the U.S. Air Quality Index, as well as the Washington State Department of Ecology. County numbers are an average based on several cities ...
Wildfires from within the state, the Pacific Northwest, California, Idaho, Nevada, and even Arizona can drastically reduce air quality. In August 2020 smoke drifted in from California fires which caused PM 2.5 levels to exceed 90 mg m −3 in Cache County, Utah , over 2.5 as high as the federal threshold level of 35 mg m −3 . [ 30 ]
The Environmental Protection Agency’s AirNow.gov site showed parts of Illinois, lower Michigan and southern Wisconsin had the worst air quality in the U.S. on Tuesday afternoon, and Chicago ...