“We don’t want the limelight—we just want clean air.”
The Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial are seen through the smoke from wild fires in Canada that blankets the National Mall in Washington on Wednesday, June 7, 2023. , an obscure EPA website that maps air quality across the United States. Then Canada caught fire and the winds changed and I woke up one morning with a sore throat and the world looking sepia and I panicked, Googled something along the lines of “smoke map,” and landed on our MVP of this week’s apocalypse, AirNow.
And then it really became clear that because of the weather pattern, this Canadian wildfire smoke was going to blanket a large section of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.Yeah, we estimated on Wednesday that it was affecting about 100 million people, just based on the state populations and the smoke map at that time. We don’t usually see [smoke like this] across several states. And once you start seeing red in the forecast and purple in the forecast….We prioritized the health information.
There’s so much work behind the scenes to get ready [for events like this], and we hope it never happens, but we were ready to go. The network held up—it worked the way it was supposed to. I kept checking. [Laughs.] But people should be able to take clean air for granted, and we’re happy to labor in obscurity here at the Office of Air and Radiation. We really are. We don’t want the limelight—we just want clean air.Yeah.
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