Chicago air is dirtier in July
than smog-choked Los Angeles.
More bad air is forecast.
Posted By: NorthernDog, 7/10/2020 9:58:38 PM
After missing out on cleaner air during the coronavirus lockdown, the Chicago area just suffered its longest streak of high-pollution days in more than a decade. Eight consecutive days of bad air swept through the region amid an emerging scientific link between exposure to pollution and COVID-19 death rates. Low-income, predominantly Black and Latino communities are being hit the hardest. Air quality has been so poor, the entire Chicago area ended up dirtier than notoriously smog-choked Los Angeles during the beginning of the month, according to a Chicago Tribune review of federal data. Satellites and land-based monitors tracked how unusually
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I blame the smoke from all the gunfire.