Wildfire Smoke Blankets the Northeastern U.S.
The New York Times Much of the United States is blanketed in haze. Were coming to you a day early to talk about what that means.
New York City used to have deadly smog. Pittsburgh had bad air. Also Los Angeles.
It got a lot better. Until it didnt.
Wildfire smoke has reversed the gains this country made in cleaning up its air. The latest example came this week, when wildfire smoke from Canada gushed down across the border, filling the sky with toxic, soupy haze in the Northeast, including New York City, where I live, before wending down to the South and West on Thursday.
Marshall Burke, a professor in the Doerr School of Sustainability, and his colleagues at Stanford University found that June 7 was the worst wildfire day on record in the U.S. since 2006. The day before ranked the fourth worst. In between were Sept. 13 and 14, 2020, when California and Nevada were engulfed in wildfire smoke.
Burke and his team based their rankings on the number of people exposed to toxic smoke.
Its part of a backsliding trend in the United States.
