From the New York Post,
NYC air quality plummets as Canadian wildfire smoke invades US — and more bad air is on the way.
Welcome to my world. Minnesota has been plagued by smoke from Canada all summer long, in what has to be the fourth consecutive year of this unwelcome phenomenon.
Friday morning may have been the worst, so far. Driving to downtown Minneapolis, from my undisclosed suburb, to observe federal court proceedings, I could not see downtown until I was in downtown.
A thick blueish haze clung to the ground. The smell was not like a campfire, more like plastic or metal burning. Up on the 15th floor of the Federal Courthouse, I was up above the haze, to some extent. The Air Quality Index (AQI) was in the upper 150’s.
Back to the Post for details,
The culprit is Canadian wildfires — with more than 550 active blazes in the province of Manitoba alone, and 15 million acres have already been burned across the country. Some of that smoke is starting to drift over the Northeastern US.
Every year, we spend untold billions of dollars on pollution control, trying to squeeze another part per trillion of some chemical or element out of the atmosphere. And all that effort and expense is lost in a single afternoon of careless Canadian forestry management.
