Exceptional events rule has become ‘regulatory escape hatch’ for states that want to meet federal air-quality standards When smoke from the Camp fire poured down over northern California in ...

Over the last few decades, air in the U.S. has undergone a remarkable transformation: pollution levels of health-damaging tiny particles have dropped by roughly 40% since 2000, primarily thanks to the ...

Since 2016, wildfire smoke in the U.S. has reversed roughly 25% of air quality improvements made from the 2000 Clean Air Act, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. That figure ...

The Matts Creek wildfire is currently burning 13 miles away from Lexington. This has caused smoke to travel to Lexington and bad air quality with it. Rockbridge County Public Schools announced ...

Smoke from wildfires is not the only reason for poor air quality this year. It turns out, those wildfires created another kind of pollution: Ozone. As more people across the country are seeing the ...

Nov. 23, 2023 — Exposure to fine particulate air pollutants from coal-fired power plants (coal PM2.5) is associated with a risk of mortality more than double that of exposure to PM2.5 from other ...

Wildfires, like this one in British Columbia's Tweedsmuir Provincial Park, continue to burn in Canada. Smoke from Canada's wildfires has again blanketed swathes of the US, leaving tens of millions ...

A cloud of Canadian wildfire smoke smothered most of the Sunshine State in haze Tuesday, adding Florida to a list of U.S. states affected by a historic season of flames up north. “I have lived ...

I am a seventh grader at Maplewood school in Edmonds and I am writing because I play sports outside and it is tough to play when there is so much smoke from the wildfires. It is hard to play ...

This year brought tragedy upon tragedy, with incomprehensible loss of lives: the war in Ukraine and the war between Israel ...

GLASGOW, Va. (WSET) — Air quality overall has been quite bad in the impacted area of the Matts Creek wildfire. It has varied from day to day who’s seen the worst air quality all thanks to ...

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the air inside your home may be more polluted than the air outdoors, even if you live in a large city center. One way to improve your air quality ...