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June 7, 2023; Columbus, Ohio, USA; A bicyclist rides through Genoa Park along the Scioto River in 2023 as smog from Canadian wildfires affects the downtown view.
In Ohio, wildfire smoke in Akron created worse air quality than Beijing and Shanghai, cities notoriously plagued by air pollution. At the time, huge swaths of the Midwest had unhealthy air quality ...
Around a dozen agencies, including the Greater Cincinnati Hazardous Materials Unit, responded when the railcar started leaking, said Mike Siefke, chief of Little Miami Joint Fire and Rescue District.
This is a list of Superfund sites in Ohio designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law.The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
September 2010 – March 2011 – Near Greenbrier, earthquake swarm near injection wells, largest 4.7 [5] May 21, 2012 - A fire and explosion broke out at an abandoned crude oil tank battery, near El Dorado. [6] March 29, 2013 – Mayflower – "Exxon-Pegasus" oil pipeline spill, 22 homes evacuated [7] November 12, 2014 – earthquake, see Kansas
An air quality index level of 100 is considered safe. An AQI under 100 is good or acceptable, and an AQI over 100 is cause for concern, especially for vulnerable groups. Levels over 300 indicate ...
A peat fire near the Raja Musa Forest Reserve in Selangor, Malaysia (2013). The fires are below the surface, where the peat is smoldering. The Southeast Asian haze is a fire-related recurrent transboundary air pollution issue.
A chemical gas leak from a rail tanker in Whitewater Township, Ohio, prompted fears of an explosion and evacuation orders for people within at least a half-mile radius of the incident.