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Canadian Wildfire Smoke Is Triggering Outdoor Air Quality Alerts Across the Midwestern U.S. It Could Pollute the Indoors, Too

By Kiley Price

One World Trade Center in New York City is obscured amid poor air quality due to smoke from Canadian wildfires as planes sit on the tarmac at Newark Liberty International Airport on June 8, 2023 in New Jersey. Credit: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images

More Than a Third of All Americans Live in Communities with ‘Hazardous’ Air, Lung Association Finds

By Victoria St. Martin

Walter Moorer observes fumes emitted from the Hosea Weaver asphalt plant near Chin Street in the historic Black community of Africatown. Credit: Patrick Darrington/Inside Climate News

Black Residents Want This Company Gone. Will Alabama’s Environmental Agency Approve a New Permit?

By Patrick Darrington

Clairton Coke Works is one of the world’s largest producers of coke, which leads to the emission of a raft of chemicals. Credit: Scott Goldsmith/Inside Climate News

In the ‘Armpit of the Universe,’ a Window Into the Persistent Inequities of Environmental Policy

By Kiley Bense, Victoria St. Martin

A coke storage area is seen as steam rises from the quench towers at the Clairton Coke Works on Jan. 21, 2020, in Clairton, Pa. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

In a Steel Town Outside Pittsburgh, an Old Fight Over Air Quality Drags On

By Kiley Bense

The GAF roofing shingles factory in West Dallas on Dec. 13. The factory reclassified itself as minor and averted public participation requirements in 2022. Credit: Shelby Tauber/Inside Climate News

‘Major’ Problem in Texas: How Big Polluters Evade Federal Law and Get Away With It

By Dylan Baddour, Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News; and Alejandra Martinez, Texas Tribune

Smoky haze from wildfires in Canada diminishes the visibility of the Empire State Building on June 7, 2023 in New York City. New York topped the list of major cities in the world with the worst air pollution on Tuesday night, June 6 as smoke from the fires blanketed the East Coast. Credit: David Dee Delgado/Getty Images

Wildfire Haze Adds To New York’s Climate Change Planning Needs

By Juanita Gordon

Esmeralda Hernández, de 46 años, posa cerca de su casa en La Villita. Se opone a un plan para ampliar la autopista Stevenson cerca de su casa.Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Vecinos de La Villita temen que empeore la contaminación ambiental por los planes de ampliación de la autopista I-55

By Aydali Campa, Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

Esmeralda Hernandez, 46, poses for a portrait near her home in Little Village. She is alarmed by a plan to expand lanes of an expressway near her community on the Southwest Side of Chicago. Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Plans for I-55 Expansion in Chicago Raise Concerns Over Air Quality and Community Health

By Aydali Campa, Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

The view of downtown Los Angeles skyline is obscured by wildfire smoke, ash and smog as seen from the Griffith Observatory Monday, Sept. 14, 2020 in Los Angeles. Credit: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Nearly 1 in 5 Americans Live in Communities With Harmful Air Quality, Study Shows

By Victoria St. Martin

Xinrong Ren, a climate scientist with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), notes down readings from air pollution monitoring instrument fitted on the mobile lab after surveying methane hotspots in and around Baltimore. Credit: Aman Azhar

NOAA Climate Scientists Cruise Washington and Baltimore for Hotspots—of Greenhouse Gases and Air Pollutants

By Aman Azhar

Ramses Diaz shows sensors installed in the back of the car that collects data every second. A wireless network then uploads it to the cloud to be analyzed by the scientists in California and New York's Department of Environmental Conservation. Credit: Myriam Vidal

Across New York, a Fleet of Sensor-Equipped Vehicles Tracks an Array of Key Pollutants

By Myriam Vidal

A woman walks her dog, under smoke from California fires on Nov. 9, 2018. Credit: Paul Harris/Getty Images

Warming Trends: Indoor Air Safer From Wildfire Smoke, a Fish Darts off the Endangered List and Dragonflies Showing the Heat in the UK

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Cars are lined up in traffic on Airline Drive after a food distribution site at Reyes Produce opened on April 13, 2020 in Houston, Texas. Credit: Mark Felix / AFP via Getty Images

Why Is Texas Allocating Funds For Reducing Air Emissions to Widening Highways?

By Aman Azhar

A fire truck drives through flames as the Hennessey fire continues to rage out of control near Lake Berryessa in Napa, California on August 18, 2020. Credit: JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images

California and Colorado Fires May Be Part of a Climate-Driven Global Transformation of Wildfires

By Michael Kodas

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Is Texas's Ozone Problem Linked to Fracking?

By Lisa Song

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In Iowa, Poor Data Hampers EPA Coal Cleanup

By B. Adam Burke, Midwest Energy News

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