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Air quality concerns linger over 49ers-Giants game on Thursday Night Football
The Bay Area’s poor air quality is adding an extra twist to the San Francisco 49ers’ home opener in Santa Clara Thursday night.
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Environmental Protection Agency delays new ozone pollution standards until after the 2024 election
The Environmental Protection Agency is delaying plans to tighten air quality standards for smog despite a recommendation by a scientific advisory panel to lower air pollution limits to protect public health.
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How bad is the air quality today? Check with this map of the DC area
The D.C. area is in for a smoky summer. Here’s a map and some safety tips for those code orange, code red or even code purple air quality alert days.
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Where are the Canadian wildfires, how did they start and could more smoke be on the way?
Canadian wildfires will send worsening smoky air across the country and neighboring United States in coming days after recent heavy rains in Quebec missed the places where the fires are most active, officials said Wednesday.
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‘It's bad': Smoky, unhealthy air leads people to mask up near National Mall
As hazy, unhealthy air overtakes the D.C. area, News4’s Megan McGrath checks in with how people are coping near the National Mall.
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Code red ‘unhealthy' air quality overtakes DC area. Check your air quality on this map
An air quality alert is in effect in the D.C. area on Thursday because of smoke from wildfires in Canada. It comes less than three weeks after D.C. was gripped by the worst air quality on record.
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See it: Thick haze settles on National Mall during code red air quality alert
The D.C. area is under a code red air quality alert. News4’s Megan McGrath reports on conditions from the National Mall.
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Storm Team4 explains DC's air quality alert
Storm Team4’s Doug Kammerer and Amelia Draper explain D.C.’s air quality alerts and what’s expected this summer.
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Midday Weather: June 28
Storm Team4 Meteorologist Amelia Draper has the forecast.
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DC area under air quality alert again due to wildfire smoke
An air quality alert is in effect in the D.C. area on Wednesday because of smoke from wildfires in Canada. It comes less than three weeks after D.C. was gripped by the worst air quality on record.
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Morning Weather: June 28
Storm Team4 Meteorologist Chuck Bell has the forecast.
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How to keep your pets safe during dangerous air quality levels
There are many health risks that people can face when it comes to wildfire smoke. However, health problems brought on by the dangerous air quality levels are not just limited to humans — our beloved pets face them as well.
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Canadian wildfires are causing unhealthy air quality again in parts of the US
Drifting smoke from the ongoing wildfires across Canada is creating curtains of haze and raising air quality concerns throughout the Great Lakes region, and in parts of the central and eastern United States.
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Special cars testing air quality in three DC neighborhoods
Washington, D.C., launched a pilot program Thursday aimed at measuring air quality in specific neighborhoods. News4’s Mark Segraves explains how it works.
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DC is testing these three neighborhoods for air quality
Washington, D.C., launched a pilot program Thursday aimed at measuring air quality in specific neighborhoods.
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Belmont Park will resume live racing after air quality improves ahead of Belmont Stakes
The New York Racing Association has announced that live racing will resume at Belmont Park on Friday following significant improvement in air quality conditions in the state.
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Air Quality Improving After Historically Bad Thursday
News4’s Dominique Moody explains how the air quality is improving Friday.
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Social media reacts to record-high air quality concerns blanketing Tri-State area
Much of the East Coast is covered by an orange sky, the result of wildfire smoke traveling south from Canada. Here’s what people have to say on social media.
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Should you run the AC when air quality is bad?
When the air quality is poor outside, is it safe to use your air conditioner? Here’s what doctors say.
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NYC sees uptick in asthma-related ER visits amid Canadian wildfire smoke
Hospitals in the city say they’re experiencing a higher than average number of ER visits related to asthma complications and respiratory illnesses after the sudden arrival of wildfire smoke from Canada spiked air quality to “hazardous” levels. A day after the city’s Air Quality Index (AQI) stayed in the “hazardous” level for hours throughout the afternoon and evening, Thursday...