air quality

There’s no way to say with certainty if we’re in for another smoky summer like last year. Health officials say it’s worth taking the time now to prepare either way.

They’ve demanded more forest thinning, prescribed burns and other measures to prevent fires from starting

In July, the Protecting Overburdened Communities Act was introduced in both chambers of the legislature.

Air quality monitors in the region showed air quality dropped to the purple or very unhealthy level this morning. It’s mostly been in the red or unhealthy level the last two days.

The Wisconsin DNR issues an air quality advisory for the entire state as air quality is expected to drop down to the Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups (USG; Orange) to the Unhealthy (Red) categories.

The Wisconsin DNR issued an air quality alert for Thursday, July 24 for Wisconsin’s northwest counties.

The Wisconsin DNR says forecasts call for the air quality index to drop to the Unhealthy For Sensitive Groups to Unhealthy levels.

Air quality could drop to the unhealthy to very unhealthy range.

Canadian wildfires are expected to drop air quality across the region Friday.

Holloway will be talking about how science supports air quality management and how wildfire smoke is changing that at May’s Science on Tap Minocqua.