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Smoke drifting across the United States from Canada’s wildfires is hitting the poor and minority communities the hardest, authorities said this week. Poor communities are already more likely to live near polluting plants and have higher rates of asthma.

Residents of the Twin Tiers of New York and Pennsylvania again found themselves wreathed in smoke from Canada as air-quality levels approached the “very unhealthy” level.

DETROIT — The Detroit area woke up Wednesday to some of the worst air quality in the United States as smoke from Canada’s wildfires settled over most of the Great

The EPA’s AirNow.gov site showed cities including Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis and Cleveland, Ohio, had “very unhealthy air” as of Wednesday afternoon.

DETROIT (AP) — Smoky air from Canada’s wildfires shrouded broad swaths of the U.S. from Minnesota to New York and Kentucky on Wednesday, prompting warnings

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian wildfires will send worsening smoky air across the country and neighboring United States in coming days after recent heavy rains faile

Smoky air from Canadas wildfires shrouded broad swaths of the U.S. from Minnesota to New York and Kentucky on Wednesday, prompting warnings to stay inside and exacerbating health risks for

The impacts are particularly hard on poor and minority communities that are more likely to live near polluting plants and have higher rates of asthma.

Detroit had the worst air quality in the U.S. on Wednesday. The Environmental Protection Agency warned residents of the mostly Black city that ‘everyone should stay indoors’

Smoky air from Canada’s wildfires is shrouding broad swaths of the U.S. from Minnesota to New York and Kentucky. Thats led to warnings to stay inside and has exacerbated health