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An air quality advisory has been issued for Thursday in the Salem and Portland-Vancouver metro areas due to elevated levels of ozone pollution or smog, according to The Oregon Department of ...
A Department of Environmental Quality report shows air quality has worsened since 2012, with more frequent days categorized as unhealthy or worse. Wildfire smoke, unhealthy air quality new normal ...
A red flag warning was extended until Friday evening as new fires ignited and existing fires spread across Oregon. Oregon wildfires: Air quality declines statewide, red flag warning extended amid ...
The most commonly used air quality index in the UK is the Daily Air Quality Index recommended by the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP). [39] This index has ten points, which are further grouped into four bands: low, moderate, high and very high. Each of the bands comes with advice for at-risk groups and the general ...
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]
PM 2.5 AQI of US monitors, calculated utilizing NowCast, courtesy US EPA PM2.5 AQI map, calculated utilizing NowCast, courtesy US EPA. The PM (particulate matter) NowCast is a weighted average of hourly air monitoring data used by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) for real-time reporting of the Air Quality Index (AQI) for PM (PM 10 - particles less than 10 micrometers ...
Jul. 9—With two wildfires in Southern Oregon that have burned more than 20,000 combined acres, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has issued an air quality advisory for Klamath and ...
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is the chief regulatory agency of the government of the U.S. state of Oregon responsible for protecting and enhancing the state's natural resources and managing sanitary and toxic waste disposal. The agency employs approximately 700 scientists, engineers, technicians, administrators, and ...