The American Lung Association released their annual State of the Air report. It shows more days with very unhealthy and hazardous air quality than ever before. More than 40% of Americans are living in places with unhealthy levels of particle pollution or ozone. The latest report found that about half a million more people were living in counties that were exposed to unhealthy spikes in particulate matter compared to their previous report.
For the second time this month, huge sections of the US are blanketed by wildfire smoke. Vox’s Rebecca Leber and climate journalist Jeff Goodell say we’re gonna have to get used to it.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Miles Bryan, Hady Mawajdeh, and Amanda Lewellyn, engineered by Michael Raphael, and hosted by Noel King.
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