Seattle measured its worst air quality in decades this week as wildfires in British Columbia blanketed much of the Northwest in a smoky haze. Cleaner air has since moved into Seattle, but many West Coast cities are still dealing with poor air quality.
Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Elizabeth Ridlington (@FrontierEliz), a policy analyst with Frontier Group and co-author of a recent study on air pollution.
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