air quality
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PublishedNovember 25, 2024
Yarmouth High reopens with air quality monitoring a day after students faint
The school reopened Tuesday after fire department tests found no contaminants in the air. It's unclear what caused three students, one of whom tested positive for carbon monoxide exposure at trace amounts, to faint.
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PublishedMarch 29, 2024
EPA sets strict emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks and buses in bid to fight climate change
The new rules for heavy trucks and buses come a week after the EPA announced new automobile emissions standards for passenger vehicles.
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PublishedJune 28, 2023
Canada wildfire smoke is drifting from the Midwest to the East Coast
Air quality alerts related to smoke were in effect for parts of 17 states covering nearly a third of the American population.
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PublishedJune 7, 2023
‘I can taste the air’: Hazardous smoke from wildfires hangs over millions in Canada, U.S.
While Canadian officials asked other countries for help fighting more than 400 blazes nationwide, air quality rated as hazardous extended into central New York.
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PublishedMay 30, 2023
Maine warns of poor air quality caused by wildfires in Canada
Officials in Halifax, Nova Scotia, said that about 200 homes or structures have been damaged by the fires, and about 16,000 people there were told to evacuate.
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PublishedMarch 16, 2023
South Portland City Council sets goals for 2023
The council set yearly goals, accepted funding, made actions for clean air, and more.