Canadian wildfires
Air quality can have negative health effects for West Virginians
At times this summer, smoke from Canadian wildfires has led to poor air quality for millions of people, including those in West Virginia. As long as the fires continue to burn, there’s a potential for them to cause air quality problems in the state, but a lot depends on the wind, said Gabe Wawrin, a […]
Workers lack protections when wildfire smoke makes the air dangerous
Millions of American workers have breathed in dangerous levels of air pollution this year as smoke from Canada’s record wildfire season blankets cities across the Northeast. Now experts are calling on federal regulators to adopt standards protecting outdoor workers from worsening air quality, potentially modeled after the few states that have such standards, including California […]
Canadian wildfire smoke should be wakeup call for West Virginia officials
June ended it as it began, with the skies in the northeast United States blanketed by smoke from hundreds of wildfires in Canada. In West Virginia, we were fortunate enough to avoid the worst effects for most of the month, but by the last week of June, we couldn’t escape the smoke and its impact […]