Smoke from Canadian wildfires has impacted the air quality throughout United States, including in the northern High Plains, Midwest, Great Lakes, southern Mid-Atlantic and into the Northeast. This has ...

Smoke from wildfires in Canada has drifted into the U.S., prompting air quality alerts for Americans as it continues to spread. But when officials and forecasters classify a city's air as "unhealthy" ...

Here’s how to understand the Environmental Protection Agency’s Air quality index (AQI), which measures, on a 300-point scale (along with six categories and advisories), the quality of air in any given ...

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NEW YORK (WABC) -- The Air Quality Index is a scale used for daily reporting of how clean or polluted the air is, and what health effects might be of concern. The AQI focuses on what you might ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Air Quality Index (AQI) refers to the Environmental Protection Agency's scale regarding the health impact of air quality and pollution in the U.S., regulated under the Clear Air ...

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Residents can monitor air quality through resources like the MiAir Quality Index Dashboard and AirNow. The Air Quality Index (AQI) uses a color-coded system to inform the public about air quality ...

The toxic air in the United States this week has flirted with the upper range of the 500-point scale. In the past decade, there have been times when the air quality was even worse. By Jenny Gross New ...

Check out FOX 2’s real-time St. Louis area Air Quality Index (AQI) dashboard. Our tool displays current air quality readings from multiple locations around the metro area, including Granite City, ...

The color-coded Air Quality Index categories you’ll find on the Environmental Protection Agency’s AirNow website rank air quality on a 500-point scale and are meant to give the public an easy way to ...